Bukowski Poem - the tragedy of the leaves

[oye2a2000]

drink before you read bukowski, make it a cold one

[IM2L84F8]

sounds like tom waits???

[lillirin]

@IM2L84F8 I agree



[freeman2545]

excellent reading

[KVespaziani]

Google image search? I don't know the photo's origin.

[cunt123456781]

wheres the photograph from 0:57?

[angelikvideo]

I'm in love with your voice :)

[iwasbornin87]

fantastic reading. alos, great music choice. bukowski lives on in the hearts of many

[KVespaziani]

Nope, it's me.

[twobit211]

izzat tom waits reading?

[sydneydowful]

this is a good read I love it.. alot of the readings that isn't hanks voice lets me down but this is dead on my freinds

[KVespaziani]

I believe it first appeared in "Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame" which contains poetry written from 1955-1973.

[IntergalacticFetus99]

When was this written?

[xoblackout]

Great vid ..bukowskis the best , rip buk

[zanpolsartr]

This is really amazing.

[happyeoin]

i'm elated and waltzing tragically with this poem

[nightmindr]

the music is erik satie i believe.

[snake1141]

Why does this reading make me think of the movie Sin City? Anyhow, love the poem, and the voice KVes

[MrRicey80]

'...undemanding yellowness.' Brilliant Buk.

[MyLuccio]

the musique is a french pianist : alfred satie. I recommend

[BUKCOLLECTOR]

One of my favorites read perfectly!

[fiandrhi]

Beautiful poem. You read it perfectly, and the music and images were well-selected, but I would prefer it without the Tom Waits style.

[indosaur]

i find contradictions with bukowski, he's quoted "they will consider their failures as creators only as failures of the world" and here he states "the world failed us both" i love his work but his work is sometimes based on his personal hypocrisies

[ImTestingSleeping]

@indosaur I am not very old at all, merely 20 years of age or so, but I think if there is one thing I am beginning to understand it is that most of us live our entire lives with false convictions. When we encounter an issue worth considering, it is our human nature to seek some answer we deem best and rationalize the hell out of it. However, we can shed our resolutions at the first sign of uncertainty. What I mean to say is: Bukowski often contradicted himself because he was human.

[indosaur]

@ImTestingSleeping very true, I guess I like his work because he does display both his own positive and negative attributes. I contradict myself alot, as in right now, as well. Here I am shedding my resolution. I'm 20, too.

[HuckleberryX]

@indosaur ... his humanity. Which is of course the greatest part of his strength.

[ebbtides]

Gnossiennes works so well with this

[anaphylaxxya]

Raw and true.

[blueingreentrain]

please whats the music? I recognize it but cant place it

[lylyth79]

It's Erik Satie

[KVespaziani]

As lylyth79 commented, it's Erik Satie.

The title is Gnossienne Number 1

[bloodline0088]

Great reading.....Hank would have drank to this...

[vinnynumbnuts]

So drunken with truth. Go youtube the Bukowski tapes, #4. It's there, read by the man himself and very drunk...

[KVespaziani]

Yes, it's a great reading, especially much of what he says after the poem. "You're gonna be burnt burnt burnt." I've watched the Bukowski tapes so many times, I could listen to him talk for days.

[vinnynumbnuts]

Ha, I agree. Thoses Bukowski tapes were a real find for me. I had read his many books and always wondered in the back of my mind: what's the man like on film? and what does he sound like?...and then Boom, I found the Bukowski tapes. Watched and listened to them for days.

Sorry, but I made an error in my previous post. This poem read by Buk can be found by youtubing "Charles Bukowski interview part 13." (Part 4 is great, all the same.)

[vinnynumbnuts]

Enjoyed your reading and images. Good stuff.

[rancid9387]

@vinnynumbnuts actually it was #13 on the tapes

[vinnynumbnuts]

@rancid9387 yes, just go back a page here and you will see my correction of that error, but thanks anyways.

[angelikvideo]

Sublime

Beautiful

Tragic

music, voice, beat. all perfect harmony

thanks

[beardfreak1969]

You have a wonderful voice & I love your reading. Well done. Good choice if music as well.

[dijhony]

a poem is a city

a poem is a city filled with streets and sewers

[hiddenpunk291]

sound like you should be in sin city haha

[nevercryshytwolf]

LOL.

[dijhony]

pretty good.

[deaver1985]

This is a really good reading.

[KVespaziani]

Haha, no, it's my own voice doing the reading, affecting a gritty Tom Waits-esque style, of course.

[DeathNeedsTime]

@KVespaziani

Wow.

[octaviosoctoid]

is this tom waits