6/12/2023 Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiRead Now![]() ![]() The truth is, though, that Bukowski was a true curmudgeon: he just didn’t get along with most people, and he found ordinary life hard, taxing. It’s such a peaceful line, closing a story with such violent undertones. Then the beautiful child was asleep and the moon was full. For example, take the closing line of one of his short stories, “A. Yet at the same time, he wrote some lines that were real pearls. ![]() Bukowski had a seeming antipathy towards women that I have a hard time getting past. I was just perusing the 1983 collection Tales of Ordinary Madness (originally published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1972). I’m of two minds about Bukowski: I like some of his poetry, but his short stories sometimes get on my nerves because they are so filled with misogyny. It’s a Charles Bukowski kind of day by that I mean that it’s ordinary, but depressing in its ordinariness. Monday afternoon, rainy and much cooler, 72 degrees. “I was returning to my musty court and madness but my kind of madness.” ~ Charles Bukowski, from “Would You Suggest Writing as a Career?” ![]()
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