bukowski_spins.md — mturro/poem

812f6c1 2013-01-25 wrote this after being disgusted by a post on copyblogger about Bukowski and writing great copy

afb123a 2013-01-25 damn lines, damn Bukowski

028d8b6 2013-01-31 Adjusted line symmetry so that the stanzas now run in a 11-7-7-11 pattern. In and of itself this offers no real significance, but it is refelective of a more carefull attention to mathmatical patterns in the work. Meter may be next.

0f6e4eb 2013-02-20 killing the directory open - don't want to think about directory strcuture and how it releates to the overall themes at this point.

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## Bukowski spins

"Food to share"

A warm and inviting sentiment

painted white across a green wooden

box, weathered by time and and chipped by

soil, reaches out from a feed numbed

by the callow perhaps offensive notion

that a poet's words are less than art;

less than the opening to this or that world;

less than the sigils and sounds and syllables

of pain bleeding through alcoholic reality.

"Bukowski!" they yell.

Bukowski had a secret and we can use

it to write better copy to sell more

useless shit to people who might have

been better off if we dropped the content

and dropped the marketing and just spoke

through virgin words without concern for the dollar.

"Bukowski!" again.

You see, it's all about the line.

So what if his line was something of a switchblade;

sharp and hidden and lethal to the fat belly of

low-level, fast-food, high fructose content hacks.

There is something in his approach that we can use to

sell this thing that nobody anywhere will ever really need.

"Food to share"

Grown and given for no other reason

than the rightness of feeding each other.

At human scale, face to face, food is poetry.

But here in RSS the poetics of organic

produce grind against the syndicated feed

of bitter and lonely sales messages.

And though we feel informed we still

starve for the simple truth that only

the living, breathing, teaming soil can provide.

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e61db84 2013-03-21 getting to the heart if the division poem. the theme of coming back to a poetic vision of the world - of poetry once again playing a role in a life that had largely left it behind - might yet give this particular poem som substance.

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