the forklift truck

the phones

an angel

blood relatives

Disney Land

the choosing thing again

the letters

the false dilemma

inside a heart

the world as a trampoline

discuss

the spiders and the spider webs

The Pied Piper of Hamlin II

disputing the salmon fable for a better one

a fact relating to thunderstorms

stuff is going on

postcards from somewhere

about the freedom concept

King Arthurs invention of the round table

the subjects

the games

THE FIELD OF YELLOW DAISIES

people in a rainbow

trying to wake somene up, sort of...

the catapillars and the plants

about a grandfather

My Father - Charles Bukowski

My Father (from "Septuagenarian Stew" 1994) - Charles Bukowski

was a truly amazing man
he pretended to be
rich
even though we lived on beans and mush and weenies
when we sat down to eat, he said,
"not everybody can eat like this."

and because he wanted to be rich or because he actually
thought he was rich
he always voted Republican
and he voted for Hoover against Roosevelt
and he lost
and then he voted for Alf Landon against Roosevelt
and he lost again
saying, "I don't know what this world is coming to,
now we've got that god damned Red in there again
and the Russians will be in our backyard next!"

I think it was my father who made me decide to
become a bum.
I decided that if a man like that wants to be rich
then I want to be poor.

and I became a bum.
I lived on nickles and dimes and in cheap rooms and
on park benches.
I thought maybe the bums knew something.

but I found out that most of the bums wanted to be
rich too.
they had just failed at that.

so caught between my father and the bums
I had no place to go
and I went there fast and slow.
never voted Republican
never voted.

buried him
like an oddity of the earth
like a hundred thousand oddities
like millions of other oddities,
wasted.

one day, about a circle

something someone could do, as an idea.

part of the all tiled wall

now-tiled (and grouted and siliconed) wall still needs paint, and some Graff, perhaps... dream....

a theory