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Tristan Tzara:

End of Summer:

A heavy love covered in moss
Shares the gold of my thoughts
Barrel where memory rings
Drunkennesses dreams cloudy nights

The sharp sage rouses it
and the fennel mocks it
It pours madness into the wind
Where its hair's water sinks

But had madness or sweetness
Turned things upside down in my head
It's in turn a single affliction
That comes and goes from day to day


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bad blood

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little dark girl with
kind eyes
when it comes time to
use the knife
I won't flinch and
i won't blame
you,
as I drive along the shore alone
as the palms wave,
the ugly heavy palms,
as the living does not arrive
as the dead do not leave,
i won't blame you,
instead
i will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.
little dark girl with kind eyes
you have no
knife.the knife is
mine and i won't use it
yet.

-raw with love, charles bukowski

A request and a poem.

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So I need to take a Charles Bukowski poem and bring it to my poetry class for discussion. I have to pick ONE. Sigh. Any suggestions, anyone? I actually haven't read that much of his poetry (I've read his collection What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire, and some assorted other stuff, but I know he has loads more), so I'm looking for something good that maybe exemplifies certain themes he always writes on, or certain hallmarks of his style. Thanks :)

And a poem. Praise, by Ilya Kaminsky. He immigrated to the US from Odessa, a town in the Ukraine, I believe? Anyway, it was definitely from the Soviet Union. He came to the US when he was 8.

( it's long (not that long) but SO WORTH IT I PROMISE. )