The man was nothing more than an introspective drunk. He was actually wealthy and cannot speak for the poor idiots who bought into his BS and raised him to cult status. His statements of Born into this..."Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die", and "into lawyers who charge so much that it's cheaper to plead guilty", are BS! No hospital can turn you away in America, and the court will appoint a lawyer if you cannot afford one. Sorry, but it's all abunch of BS!
@lggriffin You say that he can't relate to poor 'idiots' but you don't seem to understand how impossible it seems to people who don't have insurance to accept the thousands of dollars of debt to save their life, or the awful lawyers who will likely get you convicted you anyway if you can not afford your own decent one. Yeah, it may seem like bullshit to people like you who have the money, but it is reality to a lot more people.
@XSeveredManX I WAS "born into this" dirt poor,my friend! I made something of myself against all odds, just like anyone with any work ethic, motivation, and drive can do! Hospitals won't chase people who don't have 2 cents to rub together, they simply claim the loss & ultimately dismiss the debt. Public Defenders R in court every day & often have more savvy than the higher priced attorneys, I know this from experience. Don't believe half the BS you hear! Still rather be born into THIS...the USA!
@lggriffin he was wealthy after spending most of his life going from failed job to failed job, coming from a fucked up family. and generally experirencing more hardship that your dumb ass probably ever knew. And he created amazing art that has lasted long after he is dead. Court appointed lawyers are negligent and uneducated and emergency room care is appalingly bad. Stop looking at life through your small little reality tunnel and see how hard life is for alot of people.
@mwells219 "into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes"
This is about the only statement that is true. A dumbass, like yourself, would elevate a fool like this guy into a rich hero! U must be a loser, yourself, to paint Bukowski as some kind of hero! Grow up,act like a man, lick ur wounds and move on to the next venture with a positive attitude! Don't sit around crying,getting drunk, writing about ur sadness & having a pity party for yourself like a pussy, move forward!
@mwells219 Bukowski's bullshit was appreciated by the hippies of the 1960's; who were stoned, or drunk, and thought he was profound...only because they were stoned and drunk! He was nothing more than a drunk, himself, who was elevated by a bunch of fucking losers!. Nitwits like u, think the guy was something because u have a need to feel as though u know something, when in reality, u know shit! UR a pee brained imbecile with a wish to be sophisticated. U R actually a pseudo-sophisticated twit!
@strictlycomments C. Bukowski may not have been a moral, ethical or really good person, but he was pure mind and talent, wether you like his work or not. I doubt people admire him for his life achievements (he himself did not think his life is very much worth admireing), but his art is unique and inspireing, both sickening and amazing. The man was pure genius; sometimes, his words are the only thing that keep me going - in the end, he was satisfied with his life. One day, I wan't to be too.
@strictlycomments I am, but on some days I wonder what to do, and Bukowski gives me the inspiration ;))
For example;
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. ... There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
@AlexandrisSnape It's apparent that each must get his own inspiration from different methods. I personally could not get inspired by anything that an introspective drunk has to say. There are far wiser men to draw from on youtube. Surely the negativity within many of his msgs would be counter-productive towards this end. I am personally more inspired by men who have physically perservered to know a victory that was clutched out of the jaws of a defeat; men who triumphed against the odds. Peace!
@strictlycomments i really like ham on rye. he captures the pariah aspect really well. and a lot of his poems are good. i like his writing a lot more than i actually like him. but through his writing and of course there are wiser man than he. any of the men you were thinking of there are even wiser men than them. 7 billion people
@unholychunk To each his own, but if I need doom and gloom there is enough within the past of my own life to choose and reflect on, like everyone else in this world. And there's certainly enough misery out there as well on the nightly news, so why do I need to listen to the meanderings of an introspective, depressed drunk? I'll pass, but if it works for you, then have it it...and God bless!
@strictlycomments i do not need the blessing of a fictitious being in order to feel fulfillment and a sense of well being thank you. and you don't need to. just weird you do not like the guy but go to youtube to comment on his video saying as such. but i forgive you. you do believe in a man in the sky so..lol have a good one ;)
@lggriffin in america a little girl was having trouble breathing, her mother brought her to a hospital but did not have good enough insurance so they told her she needs to go to another hospital 45 minutes away on the way there her daughter dies so do not say no hospital can turn you away and yes he did get money after he got big what around 40 or 50 years old so you sir are a prime example of someone who does not know what the fuck they are talking about
@unholychunk And exactly where did this happen? First you tell me to have a good one, and then, in ur next msg you state that that I'm someone who doesn't know what the fuck I'm talking about...are you fukn bi-polar, kid, or what? Someone could look at a piece of dog shit on the ground and see it as something artistic; the color of it, and the particular way it twirls...just as some drunk dope smoking hippie thought Bukowshi's writings were profound at some point. I think they're shit!
@strictlycomments ahh you are confused, the "prime example of someone who does not know what the fuck they are talking about" that was at iggriffin hence the @iggriffin LMFAO. and if you think it is shit, why watch vids of his work on you tube?
@unholychunk Thanks for clarifying, I should know better than to read youtube posts without my reading glasses. I take back my last comment towards you and stand corrected. I looked at his "work" bcz a facebook friend directed me to it. Still, I am curious as to exactly where this happened(the hospital directing someone to another hospital), as it is against the law...
@strictlycomments its in the sicko documentary they interview the mother of the dead child. it is not against the law to refuse someone medical treatment in the states. we just automaticly feel it is due to how fucked up it is.
@unholychunk "in america a little girl was having trouble breathing, her mother brought her to a hospital but did not have good enough insurance so they told her she needs to go to another hospital 45 minutes away on the way there her daughter dies so do not say no hospital can turn you away"
Ur the one who doesn'tt know WTF your talking about! That's a bullshit story if there ever was one! How about some details/names, so it can be verified one way or another?
@lggriffin its in sicko the documentary about the us health care. she was being interviewed. also what about the time the drs at a hospital said to a dying boys father " sorry we cant give your sun a new heart to save his life because you have no insurance. so money now or we let your son die" another true story. made into a movie starring denzel. fuuck you are so dumb your countries healthcare problems are in the mainstream and you still cant see it
@unholychunk The Sicko Documentary? Okay, now you've really made a fool of yourself; firstly, the Denzel movie wasn't a "true" story, nor was it based on anything even being close to a true story, you buffoon! Secondly, Michael Moore's "Sicko" is a dishonest piece of garbage that can be corroborated by no one! And it IS against the law for any hospital in the US to turn away anyone who is in need of medical care...perid! The piece in Moore's docu-drama was BS!
@lggriffin proof the sicko doc is fake please. also the people fetured in it who were refused treatment because of there insurance who died. i will like to see your proof on them still being alive as well thank you :) and yes people get turned away at hospitals sorry you cant understand this
I agree with all of this, expect the explosions. The Earthquakes, the volcanoes will continually shake the Earth. A sharp spin of the Earth like a Black teenager toying with a basketball will our home like hamster on his wheel! Your fat, whale-of-a-cunt head will hit your ceiling and my drink will spilled, underground, in Agartha, safe, you whale-of-a-cunt.
@steffanpiper And those cunts will probably survive the next coronal mass ejection from the Sun as the rest of us eat uncle Jim's radiated thigh muscle.
@JoseAriel1408 Bukowski's stuff is classic. don't let others set the standards for you. you're beautiful, the consideration of the word and what books fall under it is entirely up to you, the free thinking individual. cheers
Use to see him on a daily basis in the club house at the racetrack...he was a real prick, but his horse racing formula really works... won like a madwomen on his system!
Bukowski was not only a fine writer. He was also a prophet, and it wouldn`t surprised me if everything he says here comes true, however most of us won`t be here to see it....we`ll be melting inside the bellies of radiated men.
i live in auckland new zealand and let me tell you it is cheaper to die.this is the deal?i have parking tickets to pay.the man always wins.but often its a lady to collect the fine.always in the name of government.this is why i have never voted.i consider it like throwing a coin in a wishing well.i am the guy who dives down .whereas i think you still believe in the system and pay taxes
Bukowski's primary objection was modern day society; not humanity- the state of the USA. If he wasn't such a nihilist he would see beyond his countries borders and leave, much like the modern informed few.
@Grendo147 Fuckin' aye. The nature of the human being isn't mixed with politics. Politicians are the pimps and whores. Are you shitting me? You don't know shit about being a fuckin' human being if you can't separate the two.
Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Harry Reid, Bart Stupak, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Michael Chertoff, Michael Moore, George Clooney, Roseanne Barr, Rosie O'Donnell, Sharon Stone, Kathy Griffin
i have seen all kinds of "artistic" interpretations of this poem on this yuotube with a bunch of computer animation and puppets, but this is my favorite. Just plain old ordinary, no frills, real Life.
Perhaps Buk's poetry (in general) is about humanity and the pathetic arguments we have through mediums such as youtube. I don't think I've seen too many comments about a youtube vid that don't have idiots talking shit about each other in it. I love it. It really inspires me; unlike Buk's poetry. I love evolution. Peace kids. PS: grow the fuck up! The best retort is silence.;"the most beautiful silence, never heard."
well i guess if people cant see the beauty of this cant see it anywhere or create it, aswell as art goes... yes this counts as poetry, if you knew what poetry was you would not ask that stupid question, i guess mediocre people must be the majority or else there would not be enough slaves to keep the machine going. cartoon beatnik... beware of average people, there love is average... they think average and will seek average
@ezelite You've got to remember that this guy never had a formal education. What's beautiful is that this is his voice. Most people don't write like that...not anymore at least. It's far from childish. People criticize him because "He's an easy read." His lack of subtlety some how weakens his work? I think it does just the opposite. Contrived? I doubt it. He never tried to impress anyone, the masses brought him in, not the other way around.
In all honesty, I have never heard poetry remotely this good. There is something authentic in Bukowski that all other poets seem to lack. Maybe you have to have the hell kicked out of you by your sadistic father to achieve this level of sincerity...I don't know. He was above the rest. Incredible.
I have contemplated this for days. Easily one of the most haunting, cryptic, and yet, beautiful pieces it has been my pleasure to read and hear. Thank you Charles. Although I didn't agree with your lifestyle, you spoke in great volumes. Some people just need the speaker cranked to 11..
@Jcobb1018 I was merely speaking about those who don't appreciate his works when I say "some people". You, yourself, say that Buk really was an asshole and speaking truly, he was a man frequently bathed in drunk apathy. He knew who he was, chose to live life his own way, and much brilliance and truth came of it. But yes, your intelligent retort is rather flattering. Now be quiet, put on your dunce cap like a good boy and face the corner. This shouldn't be anything new for you, you fucking troll.
one of the great later 20th century poems. a nightmare vision presented with such clarity that i shudder when he says,"radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men." like some end of times nuclear donner party.
it really moves me when he says " into a a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes" it's so goddamn true I think that every goddamn day!!!
HE ROCKS.. wheather i get all this or not does not matter.. i have used this expression many a times about people who (others blame for their lives) are born into it! what an incredible way of expressing human understanding..
Truth, perception, significance, and even life itself, are all but transitory in nature. Bukowski writes in the moment, using the indicative rather than the imperative mood. Like some kind of "Dick and Jane" primer for adults, he equates sounds, symbols, and meaning through a simple narrative style almost child-like in its simplicity. "See Hank fxxk Jane, fxxk, fxxk, fxxk." "We are born like this, into this." "..the jails are full and the madhouses closed." Never attempting to explain why.
yeah, bukowski tells all the people the fuckin truth! and thats why they hate him. cause nobody wants to hear the truth! people lie, kill, destroy. bukowski showed them the mirror! buk forever
I believe this to be one of the most important poems ever written. The truth, thr genius in each line. Just the blistering honesty of it all. This would be an excellent poem to start with for those who sum up Buk by labeling his work as "misogyny" ... Heart taking..
i believe one labels a work 'misogynistic'. buk wrote some great stuff but this is him at his intellectually stultified, self-pitying best. little wonder in his latter years he said most of what he'd produced was complete shit. go booze!
Čovek koji je bio cipela.Takva da je odgovarala samo onima koji nisu mogli druge da si priušte. Skladište vremena i prostora iz koga se može iznaći ,bar, polurešenje svakog problema ovog sveta. Svi smo mi pomalo Bukowski
@Torkulguy yes it is, but still there is a point. politics is all about humanity. whether you see a billboard list or your parents is irrelevant. it's still humanity in general that he's adressing.
@kremtusj The Human nature and politics seem to be inseparable, but they are two very different things. You lose yourself, more than anything, from a system that expects from you, that sucks the life out of you. What you suggest is that you are what is around you, but was Bukowski? No. Are you? No. Far from it, most despise it, most would rather just fuck and die. why be involved in this petty bullshit? This unnecessary cruelty?
@Torkulguy ..I'm so glad to have wasted my time replying a seventeen year old fucktard with a clear view of things. Of course it's the system, man. we gots to bring it down. stop throwing our hearts on its floors, stop sobbing in the showers for mommy whenever it moves about, involuntarily crushing our humanity by elevating an ignorant daydreaming rube into a mean, green knight. My boy; you boy. I'd slap you for your ignorance after I pissed in you milk. This unnecessary display of words, boy.
@Torkulguy I don't know what you mean by mixing Burroug-- omg, are you saying I'm writing like them? That's.. so wrong. I was writing it ironically, you quick to jump to conclusion-kind of guy. You're looking at a philter instead of through it. Aaany ways, I'm glad you've read books! Such promise.
I have to start reading more Bukowski. Even just listening to him on youtube he's quickly becoming one of my favorite writers, right next to another legend, Kurt Vonnegut. Is that actually him reading? It sounds like it's him.
Yeah that is him man. You cant really get more far apart than Bukowski and Vonnegut though lol. I like both though, well used to love Vonnegut but got more into stuff like Bukowski, Beat Generation etc. Bukowski is the most amazing writer. Last Night On Earth Poems is his best poetry book and I reckon Women is the best novel
There are certain similarities between the two, but I would say Vonnegut was slightly more optimistic than Bukowski. Vonnegut had some faith in humanity and that some how it would save itself. Bukowski was content to watch people eat each other.
I agree...the man went through some terrible times as a young man. Plus, Ham On Rye isn't a succession on trysts.
Amazingly, in his later years, when he was finally free of the juice, and just dabbled with wine, he looked pretty damn good, and you couldn't even see the effects of his skin problems....those closeups of his porous nose were earlier.
This specific piece makes me wonder whether or not Cormac McCarthy was a fan of Bukowski.
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Regardless of 'The Road', he undoubtedly was...
Donut8Danggs 2 weeks ago
The song of our times.
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@unholychunk ..your sleepin son. DOOM - Cellz. pick up his recent solo joint Born Like This!
dynospectrum 2 months ago
im drinking a bottle of wine right now.
i'll drink to him.
Crashoverall 2 months ago
Seer Bukowski.
My most-trusted
Voice of prophecy.
See B.
TheSWolfe 2 months ago
The man was nothing more than an introspective drunk. He was actually wealthy and cannot speak for the poor idiots who bought into his BS and raised him to cult status. His statements of Born into this..."Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die", and "into lawyers who charge so much that it's cheaper to plead guilty", are BS! No hospital can turn you away in America, and the court will appoint a lawyer if you cannot afford one. Sorry, but it's all abunch of BS!
lggriffin 2 months ago
@lggriffin You say that he can't relate to poor 'idiots' but you don't seem to understand how impossible it seems to people who don't have insurance to accept the thousands of dollars of debt to save their life, or the awful lawyers who will likely get you convicted you anyway if you can not afford your own decent one. Yeah, it may seem like bullshit to people like you who have the money, but it is reality to a lot more people.
XSeveredManX 2 months ago
@XSeveredManX I WAS "born into this" dirt poor,my friend! I made something of myself against all odds, just like anyone with any work ethic, motivation, and drive can do! Hospitals won't chase people who don't have 2 cents to rub together, they simply claim the loss & ultimately dismiss the debt. Public Defenders R in court every day & often have more savvy than the higher priced attorneys, I know this from experience. Don't believe half the BS you hear! Still rather be born into THIS...the USA!
lggriffin 2 months ago
@lggriffin he was wealthy after spending most of his life going from failed job to failed job, coming from a fucked up family. and generally experirencing more hardship that your dumb ass probably ever knew. And he created amazing art that has lasted long after he is dead. Court appointed lawyers are negligent and uneducated and emergency room care is appalingly bad. Stop looking at life through your small little reality tunnel and see how hard life is for alot of people.
mwells219 2 months ago
@mwells219 "into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes"
This is about the only statement that is true. A dumbass, like yourself, would elevate a fool like this guy into a rich hero! U must be a loser, yourself, to paint Bukowski as some kind of hero! Grow up,act like a man, lick ur wounds and move on to the next venture with a positive attitude! Don't sit around crying,getting drunk, writing about ur sadness & having a pity party for yourself like a pussy, move forward!
lggriffin 2 months ago
@mwells219 Bukowski's bullshit was appreciated by the hippies of the 1960's; who were stoned, or drunk, and thought he was profound...only because they were stoned and drunk! He was nothing more than a drunk, himself, who was elevated by a bunch of fucking losers!. Nitwits like u, think the guy was something because u have a need to feel as though u know something, when in reality, u know shit! UR a pee brained imbecile with a wish to be sophisticated. U R actually a pseudo-sophisticated twit!
strictlycomments 2 months ago
@strictlycomments C. Bukowski may not have been a moral, ethical or really good person, but he was pure mind and talent, wether you like his work or not. I doubt people admire him for his life achievements (he himself did not think his life is very much worth admireing), but his art is unique and inspireing, both sickening and amazing. The man was pure genius; sometimes, his words are the only thing that keep me going - in the end, he was satisfied with his life. One day, I wan't to be too.
AlexandrisSnape 2 months ago
@AlexandrisSnape I stand by my comments, but I hope that you are indeed one day satisfied with your life...
strictlycomments 2 months ago
@strictlycomments I am, but on some days I wonder what to do, and Bukowski gives me the inspiration ;))
For example;
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. ... There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
AlexandrisSnape 2 months ago
@AlexandrisSnape It's apparent that each must get his own inspiration from different methods. I personally could not get inspired by anything that an introspective drunk has to say. There are far wiser men to draw from on youtube. Surely the negativity within many of his msgs would be counter-productive towards this end. I am personally more inspired by men who have physically perservered to know a victory that was clutched out of the jaws of a defeat; men who triumphed against the odds. Peace!
strictlycomments 2 months ago
@strictlycomments i really like ham on rye. he captures the pariah aspect really well. and a lot of his poems are good. i like his writing a lot more than i actually like him. but through his writing and of course there are wiser man than he. any of the men you were thinking of there are even wiser men than them. 7 billion people
unholychunk 2 months ago
@unholychunk To each his own, but if I need doom and gloom there is enough within the past of my own life to choose and reflect on, like everyone else in this world. And there's certainly enough misery out there as well on the nightly news, so why do I need to listen to the meanderings of an introspective, depressed drunk? I'll pass, but if it works for you, then have it it...and God bless!
strictlycomments 2 months ago
@strictlycomments i do not need the blessing of a fictitious being in order to feel fulfillment and a sense of well being thank you. and you don't need to. just weird you do not like the guy but go to youtube to comment on his video saying as such. but i forgive you. you do believe in a man in the sky so..lol have a good one ;)
unholychunk 2 months ago
@lggriffin in america a little girl was having trouble breathing, her mother brought her to a hospital but did not have good enough insurance so they told her she needs to go to another hospital 45 minutes away on the way there her daughter dies so do not say no hospital can turn you away and yes he did get money after he got big what around 40 or 50 years old so you sir are a prime example of someone who does not know what the fuck they are talking about
unholychunk 2 months ago
@unholychunk And exactly where did this happen? First you tell me to have a good one, and then, in ur next msg you state that that I'm someone who doesn't know what the fuck I'm talking about...are you fukn bi-polar, kid, or what? Someone could look at a piece of dog shit on the ground and see it as something artistic; the color of it, and the particular way it twirls...just as some drunk dope smoking hippie thought Bukowshi's writings were profound at some point. I think they're shit!
strictlycomments 2 months ago
@strictlycomments ahh you are confused, the "prime example of someone who does not know what the fuck they are talking about" that was at iggriffin hence the @iggriffin LMFAO. and if you think it is shit, why watch vids of his work on you tube?
unholychunk 2 months ago
@unholychunk Thanks for clarifying, I should know better than to read youtube posts without my reading glasses. I take back my last comment towards you and stand corrected. I looked at his "work" bcz a facebook friend directed me to it. Still, I am curious as to exactly where this happened(the hospital directing someone to another hospital), as it is against the law...
strictlycomments 2 months ago
@strictlycomments its in the sicko documentary they interview the mother of the dead child. it is not against the law to refuse someone medical treatment in the states. we just automaticly feel it is due to how fucked up it is.
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lggriffin 2 months ago
@unholychunk "in america a little girl was having trouble breathing, her mother brought her to a hospital but did not have good enough insurance so they told her she needs to go to another hospital 45 minutes away on the way there her daughter dies so do not say no hospital can turn you away"
Ur the one who doesn'tt know WTF your talking about! That's a bullshit story if there ever was one! How about some details/names, so it can be verified one way or another?
Thou art the dumb cluck!
lggriffin 2 months ago
@lggriffin its in sicko the documentary about the us health care. she was being interviewed. also what about the time the drs at a hospital said to a dying boys father " sorry we cant give your sun a new heart to save his life because you have no insurance. so money now or we let your son die" another true story. made into a movie starring denzel. fuuck you are so dumb your countries healthcare problems are in the mainstream and you still cant see it
unholychunk 2 months ago
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strictlycomments 2 months ago
@unholychunk The Sicko Documentary? Okay, now you've really made a fool of yourself; firstly, the Denzel movie wasn't a "true" story, nor was it based on anything even being close to a true story, you buffoon! Secondly, Michael Moore's "Sicko" is a dishonest piece of garbage that can be corroborated by no one! And it IS against the law for any hospital in the US to turn away anyone who is in need of medical care...perid! The piece in Moore's docu-drama was BS!
Thou truly art the dumb cluck!
lggriffin 2 months ago
@lggriffin proof the sicko doc is fake please. also the people fetured in it who were refused treatment because of there insurance who died. i will like to see your proof on them still being alive as well thank you :) and yes people get turned away at hospitals sorry you cant understand this
unholychunk 2 months ago
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@lggriffin lol i knew you couldn't :)
unholychunk 2 months ago
IF U DUN LIKE THIS URE STUPID
ranealex 2 months ago in playlist Liked
quite the prophet...take a look around folks.
alabaster9 2 months ago
Beautiful nihilism.
dij7878 3 months ago
shit.
he knows how to read poetry.
Crashoverall 3 months ago
Doom from the realm of El Kuluwm...
kermaleivos 4 months ago
@Grendo147 Both of us, what?
kremtusj 4 months ago
nihilism is to hear this, laugh and shrug
RatherCrunchyMuffin 4 months ago
thanks DOOM for turnin me on to a great poet
dynospectrum 4 months ago 11
@dynospectrum seriously, like that was too ill on the album, and now he's introduced everyone to this poet. DOOM knows where it's at.
tdstdstdss 3 months ago
@dynospectrum MF DOOM? which song if it is the same DOOM we are thinking of
unholychunk 2 months ago
Boy this just about sums it up! What a shit hole.
vudu8ball 4 months ago
This poem alone makes me think Bukowski was great.
chingchangchongfly 5 months ago 3
And it WILL happen.
The London riots are a piss in the ocean for what is to come.
I Garuntee it.
skeletorphd 5 months ago
One of my very favorite Buk poems...
TheBukrules 6 months ago
Don't try.
theoriginal72 6 months ago
VILLAIN!
flesheater101 6 months ago
who filmed the images? i'd guess it might've been neeli cherry. am i wrong?
twobit211 7 months ago
@twobit211 Matt Mindlin , Art Simon
kac182 7 months ago
@kac182 thx
twobit211 7 months ago
So True
mongrelkatz 8 months ago
We are born like this.
Into despair and assumptions and hopes,
that things will one day be beautiful.
That they will fulfill the promises that so many generations whispered in my ear in your ear. In a worlds ear
So withheld, hoping for the dreams of millions.
And settling for the existence that is reality.
Shanekwaify 8 months ago
How do you do two thumbs up again? Gotta be a way...
josephknightcom 8 months ago
sucha beautiful poem. I cant get tired of it.
ojoroto 8 months ago
mad prophet
MaTchBoOkPoEt 9 months ago
just what i need as i watch the coverage
off the Tsunami
i Japan
tullioward 10 months ago
WTF.
shitmypants119 10 months ago
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If you like Bukowski, check out A Violent Scenery (google it)
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spankykid88 11 months ago
I agree with all of this, expect the explosions. The Earthquakes, the volcanoes will continually shake the Earth. A sharp spin of the Earth like a Black teenager toying with a basketball will our home like hamster on his wheel! Your fat, whale-of-a-cunt head will hit your ceiling and my drink will spilled, underground, in Agartha, safe, you whale-of-a-cunt.
GordonMorrice 11 months ago
Curse you Death..Give this one back .
thom8406 1 year ago 2
Great f-ing poem... So true.
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fredunlimited333 1 year ago
10 people who watched this must've been frightened by the truth of it and cried openly.
steffanpiper 1 year ago 39
@steffanpiper And those cunts will probably survive the next coronal mass ejection from the Sun as the rest of us eat uncle Jim's radiated thigh muscle.
GordonMorrice 1 year ago
@steffanpiper they must have been dumb mother fuckers
Tab2120 10 months ago
@steffanpiper You just got an "AMEN!"
tatteredprince 6 months ago
The guy behind Hank stressfully looks at his watch at 0:53. A brilliant visual metaphor given the subject matter here.
GordonMorrice 1 year ago
This says everything that the novel "The Road" does within two minutes... let alone the fact that it was written decades prior.
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We could plan a paradisical world for ourselves yet we choose to make
A world of plastic horror where the flesh of children smoulders and bakes
Where machines churn out things we do not need
All because of the minority's greed
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GordonMorrice 1 year ago
A Charles Bukowski (and Roberto Bolaño) book makes my day. I thank him for freeing me from the chains of the classics.
JoseAriel1408 1 year ago
@JoseAriel1408 Bukowski's stuff is classic. don't let others set the standards for you. you're beautiful, the consideration of the word and what books fall under it is entirely up to you, the free thinking individual. cheers
azurenscens 11 months ago 2
That was truly excellent.
msmelancholy1 1 year ago
can someone tell me what year this written, thank you.
peanut11209 1 year ago
@peanut11209 2003 was when it was released.
lurkmoree 1 year ago
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peanut11209 1 year ago
That was awesome.
patricknelson 1 year ago
Use to see him on a daily basis in the club house at the racetrack...he was a real prick, but his horse racing formula really works... won like a madwomen on his system!
MrsTrexJr 1 year ago
I could have told everyone this, except I wouldn't be so nice.
arowara1 1 year ago
hank was a legion among men
RaisinBran017 1 year ago
PRAISE THIS MAN!
rexnickles2 1 year ago
Bukowski was not only a fine writer. He was also a prophet, and it wouldn`t surprised me if everything he says here comes true, however most of us won`t be here to see it....we`ll be melting inside the bellies of radiated men.
rhetoricalparadox 1 year ago
i live in auckland new zealand and let me tell you it is cheaper to die.this is the deal?i have parking tickets to pay.the man always wins.but often its a lady to collect the fine.always in the name of government.this is why i have never voted.i consider it like throwing a coin in a wishing well.i am the guy who dives down .whereas i think you still believe in the system and pay taxes
stankler 1 year ago
Bukowski's primary objection was modern day society; not humanity- the state of the USA. If he wasn't such a nihilist he would see beyond his countries borders and leave, much like the modern informed few.
benaravo 1 year ago
everyone commenting on here ,go fuck yourselves!
nukecat 1 year ago
@Grendo147 Why don't you watch your mouth you hairy cunt?
VasilisBotoulas 1 year ago
@Grendo147 Fuckin' aye. The nature of the human being isn't mixed with politics. Politicians are the pimps and whores. Are you shitting me? You don't know shit about being a fuckin' human being if you can't separate the two.
Torkulguy 1 year ago
he was the realest
aaronamccoy 1 year ago
"As the oily fish spit out their oily prey" True, true.
strangestringsnyc 1 year ago
Into a place where the masses elevate fools.
Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Harry Reid, Bart Stupak, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Michael Chertoff, Michael Moore, George Clooney, Roseanne Barr, Rosie O'Donnell, Sharon Stone, Kathy Griffin
I could continue...
Camel76 1 year ago
@Camel76 You are an idiot. Don't try to interpret poetry again. You make fool of self.
cpvon 1 year ago
@cpvon That was good and you love it. :p
Camel76 1 year ago
@Camel76 LOL! Your an imbecile.
deadarm66 1 year ago
@deadarm66
When people elevate fools like the ones I mentioned they are the imbeciles.
Camel76 1 year ago
radiant with charcoal
curiouschem 1 year ago
well its settled. iv finally found some poetry that moves me. this guy bukowski you were awesome.
firej666 1 year ago
a combination of words that makes sense to me on a late night like this.
thanks for this post! cheers
pornswordtobacco 1 year ago
i have seen all kinds of "artistic" interpretations of this poem on this yuotube with a bunch of computer animation and puppets, but this is my favorite. Just plain old ordinary, no frills, real Life.
SISYPHUSECC111 1 year ago
Perhaps Buk's poetry (in general) is about humanity and the pathetic arguments we have through mediums such as youtube. I don't think I've seen too many comments about a youtube vid that don't have idiots talking shit about each other in it. I love it. It really inspires me; unlike Buk's poetry. I love evolution. Peace kids. PS: grow the fuck up! The best retort is silence.;"the most beautiful silence, never heard."
AltonDowns 1 year ago
A man who calls another man whom he never met an asshole is a worthless piece of shit.
JaEuerMeister 1 year ago
well i guess if people cant see the beauty of this cant see it anywhere or create it, aswell as art goes... yes this counts as poetry, if you knew what poetry was you would not ask that stupid question, i guess mediocre people must be the majority or else there would not be enough slaves to keep the machine going. cartoon beatnik... beware of average people, there love is average... they think average and will seek average
badsign1980 1 year ago
Contrived, childish, pretentious and drawling.....sounds like a cartoon beatnik
ezelite 1 year ago
@ezelite do you read poetry or write?
jmufkinc 1 year ago
@ezelite yeah great intit
boppinjay 1 year ago
@ezelite You've got to remember that this guy never had a formal education. What's beautiful is that this is his voice. Most people don't write like that...not anymore at least. It's far from childish. People criticize him because "He's an easy read." His lack of subtlety some how weakens his work? I think it does just the opposite. Contrived? I doubt it. He never tried to impress anyone, the masses brought him in, not the other way around.
Torkulguy 1 year ago
does this even count as poetry?
r1ckyla 1 year ago
@r1ckyla Are you serious?
jmufkinc 1 year ago
@r1ckyla Are you serious?!
jmufkinc 1 year ago
@r1ckyla if it's poetry at it's most inviting fulfilling best i think bukowski is eminem's dad
mad755 1 year ago
Teaser Trailer for Charles Bukowski short film - ALL THE GREAT WRITERS - on youtube...
Check it out...
djodvic 1 year ago
he really was an asshole.
Jcobb1018 1 year ago
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@Jcobb1018 like you would know. what are you, a critic?
nukecat 1 year ago
Perfect, showing him walking his haunts and talking, as if he was thinking the poem. His reading helps reveal the meaning.
mzim144659 1 year ago 2
In all honesty, I have never heard poetry remotely this good. There is something authentic in Bukowski that all other poets seem to lack. Maybe you have to have the hell kicked out of you by your sadistic father to achieve this level of sincerity...I don't know. He was above the rest. Incredible.
carleneisthesheet 1 year ago 4
I have contemplated this for days. Easily one of the most haunting, cryptic, and yet, beautiful pieces it has been my pleasure to read and hear. Thank you Charles. Although I didn't agree with your lifestyle, you spoke in great volumes. Some people just need the speaker cranked to 11..
rockyraoulduke 1 year ago
you are an idiot.
Jcobb1018 1 year ago
@Jcobb1018 I was merely speaking about those who don't appreciate his works when I say "some people". You, yourself, say that Buk really was an asshole and speaking truly, he was a man frequently bathed in drunk apathy. He knew who he was, chose to live life his own way, and much brilliance and truth came of it. But yes, your intelligent retort is rather flattering. Now be quiet, put on your dunce cap like a good boy and face the corner. This shouldn't be anything new for you, you fucking troll.
rockyraoulduke 1 year ago
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Poems rarely give me goosebumps. But this one does. It could be the booze and pot though.
eulogyforghosts(dot)blogspot(dot)com for post apocalyptic poetry.
soSUBURBIA 1 year ago
Buk was playing too much Fallout 3. Just kidding, and this poem kicks ass.
arisechicken82 1 year ago 2
one of the great later 20th century poems. a nightmare vision presented with such clarity that i shudder when he says,"radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men." like some end of times nuclear donner party.
MeesterChum 1 year ago
Bukowski was the last one who fighted with words against this modern world and inhumanity...
l7m7g7 1 year ago
How did Bukowski fight for humanity with drunken rambling, womanizing, and all around general apathy?
AMMMNN 1 year ago
just great. real and pure stuff.
erikuz 1 year ago
it really moves me when he says " into a a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes" it's so goddamn true I think that every goddamn day!!!
hucklebeck 1 year ago 4
great. just beautiful and true
Schweineohr 2 years ago 5
Beautiful, yet ugly as it is supposed to be.
Zenapproach09 1 year ago 44
i love this guy
eomer24 2 years ago 5
HE ROCKS.. wheather i get all this or not does not matter.. i have used this expression many a times about people who (others blame for their lives) are born into it! what an incredible way of expressing human understanding..
fuck you quinn
almohvn33 2 years ago
stick it up your ass. mother fucker.
Jcobb1018 2 years ago
Truth, perception, significance, and even life itself, are all but transitory in nature. Bukowski writes in the moment, using the indicative rather than the imperative mood. Like some kind of "Dick and Jane" primer for adults, he equates sounds, symbols, and meaning through a simple narrative style almost child-like in its simplicity. "See Hank fxxk Jane, fxxk, fxxk, fxxk." "We are born like this, into this." "..the jails are full and the madhouses closed." Never attempting to explain why.
anyonelovesnoone 2 years ago
Artists don't have to attempt to explain why, nor do they have to write with adult-like complexity, in order to be great.
articulate007 1 year ago 2
That was exactly my point. He doesn't, and he is, for exactly that reason.
anyonelovesnoone 1 year ago
Oh word, I misinterpreted.
articulate007 1 year ago
@articulate007 Thank you!
yadidaholla 1 year ago
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anyonelovesnoone 2 years ago
mf doom ah beast 4 this one
anthroslime 2 years ago
yeah, bukowski tells all the people the fuckin truth! and thats why they hate him. cause nobody wants to hear the truth! people lie, kill, destroy. bukowski showed them the mirror! buk forever
l7m7g7 2 years ago 4
I believe this to be one of the most important poems ever written. The truth, thr genius in each line. Just the blistering honesty of it all. This would be an excellent poem to start with for those who sum up Buk by labeling his work as "misogyny" ... Heart taking..
IffySpiffy1380 2 years ago
i believe one labels a work 'misogynistic'. buk wrote some great stuff but this is him at his intellectually stultified, self-pitying best. little wonder in his latter years he said most of what he'd produced was complete shit. go booze!
billyshitcheese 2 years ago
Čovek koji je bio cipela.Takva da je odgovarala samo onima koji nisu mogli druge da si priušte. Skladište vremena i prostora iz koga se može iznaći ,bar, polurešenje svakog problema ovog sveta. Svi smo mi pomalo Bukowski
6435842 2 years ago
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aryanstallyan 2 years ago
So THIIIISS is where MF Doom got the intro for "Cellz" that's perfect. Doom choice wisely
abSOULuteD 2 years ago
trust mf doom to identify with such trite, obvious statements!
billyshitcheese 2 years ago
i love him.
Lifesucksdie123 2 years ago
Radiated men will eat the flesh,
of radiated men.
speier 2 years ago
And no one gives a flying fuck that you commented on some youtube video.
Madrigal9x9 2 years ago
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sounds like incoherent blabbing. no one cares how "artsy" you are
Vertigo3TC 2 years ago
this is an allegory for libertarianism
DjRareware 2 years ago
You don't know shit. This isn't about politics, this is about humanity.
Torkulguy 2 years ago 57
@Torkulguy yes it is, but still there is a point. politics is all about humanity. whether you see a billboard list or your parents is irrelevant. it's still humanity in general that he's adressing.
kremtusj 1 year ago
@kremtusj The Human nature and politics seem to be inseparable, but they are two very different things. You lose yourself, more than anything, from a system that expects from you, that sucks the life out of you. What you suggest is that you are what is around you, but was Bukowski? No. Are you? No. Far from it, most despise it, most would rather just fuck and die. why be involved in this petty bullshit? This unnecessary cruelty?
Torkulguy 1 year ago
@Torkulguy ..I'm so glad to have wasted my time replying a seventeen year old fucktard with a clear view of things. Of course it's the system, man. we gots to bring it down. stop throwing our hearts on its floors, stop sobbing in the showers for mommy whenever it moves about, involuntarily crushing our humanity by elevating an ignorant daydreaming rube into a mean, green knight. My boy; you boy. I'd slap you for your ignorance after I pissed in you milk. This unnecessary display of words, boy.
kremtusj 1 year ago
@kremtusj LOL you dumb shit, you're mixing Burroughs and Bukowski!
Torkulguy 1 year ago
@kremtusj Think i wouldn't catch that, did you, you unoriginal cunt?
Torkulguy 1 year ago
@Torkulguy I don't know what you mean by mixing Burroug-- omg, are you saying I'm writing like them? That's.. so wrong. I was writing it ironically, you quick to jump to conclusion-kind of guy. You're looking at a philter instead of through it. Aaany ways, I'm glad you've read books! Such promise.
kremtusj 4 months ago
bukowski has never been about politics
Torkulguy 2 years ago 3
and neither about humanity ;)
roeschuxxx 2 years ago
I never meant in support of.
Torkulguy 2 years ago
man this is beautiful
eza1 2 years ago 4
I think when he says "The most beautiful silence never heard" he means that all men will die so they will never expeirence silence"
iD0NUTZ 2 years ago
Jesus for sure will survive any atomic holocaust, if he didn't die on the cross :))
beautiful4est 2 years ago
to anybody who might have played the game, the narration begins to sound like Fallout 3 towards the end
supersurfer888 2 years ago
great comparing Bukowski to Fallout 3
i'm sure he's spinning in his grave
mediumsteve 2 years ago 3
grande UOMO
carbukoski 2 years ago
Fuck you! Orangutans aren't orange!
AccessModule4750 2 years ago
Yes they are,
mikevandmikel 2 years ago
yes they are... :p
Mulwany 2 years ago
FINGERBANG AN ARANGATAAAAAAAN!!!
perricida 2 years ago
fingers reach for the bottle
Torkulguy 2 years ago 3
I have to start reading more Bukowski. Even just listening to him on youtube he's quickly becoming one of my favorite writers, right next to another legend, Kurt Vonnegut. Is that actually him reading? It sounds like it's him.
madmethod21 2 years ago
Yeah that is him man. You cant really get more far apart than Bukowski and Vonnegut though lol. I like both though, well used to love Vonnegut but got more into stuff like Bukowski, Beat Generation etc. Bukowski is the most amazing writer. Last Night On Earth Poems is his best poetry book and I reckon Women is the best novel
SomaLFM 2 years ago 4
There are certain similarities between the two, but I would say Vonnegut was slightly more optimistic than Bukowski. Vonnegut had some faith in humanity and that some how it would save itself. Bukowski was content to watch people eat each other.
allthatisandeverwas 2 years ago 2
I always liked Ham on rye the best of his novels, even Pulp is worth reading ever tho it's "dedicated to bad writing"
Mulwany 2 years ago
I agree...the man went through some terrible times as a young man. Plus, Ham On Rye isn't a succession on trysts.
Amazingly, in his later years, when he was finally free of the juice, and just dabbled with wine, he looked pretty damn good, and you couldn't even see the effects of his skin problems....those closeups of his porous nose were earlier.
sclogse1 2 years ago
I respectfully disagree about women, Post Office and Factotum are wonderful. Dangling in the Tornafortia is great
bigrussthefusss 2 years ago