Bukowski

This is for Henry Chinaski, Charles Bukowski. Great American Poet. Writer and sometimes (all the time) good drinker... But there is a bizarre light in his work...

he sat naked and drunk in a room of summer

night, running the blade of the knife
under his fingernails, smiling, thinking
of all the letters he had received
telling him that
the way he lived and wrote about
that--
it had kept them going when
all seemed
truly
hopeless

Charles Bukowski


Well the photo is from the book Shakespeare Never Did This