hooray say the roses

[threeandnine.livejournal.com]

hooray say the roses, today is blamesday
and we are red as blood.

hooray say the roses, today is Wednesday
and we bloom where soldiers fell,
and lovers too,
and the snake ate the word.

hooray say the roses, darkness comes
all at once, like lights gone out,
the sun leaves dark continents
and rows of stone.

hooray say the roses, cannons and spires,
birds, bees, bombers, today is Friday
the hand holding a medal out the window,
a moth going by, half a mile an hour,
hooray hooray
hooray say the roses
we wave empires on our stems,
the sun moves the mouth:
hooray hooray hooray
and that is why you like us.
--Charles Bukowski

Comments

[darkbarde.livejournal.com]

I think this may be the only poem I have read by Bukowski that I have not hated immediately. Thanks for sharing. :-)

[pushyouaround.livejournal.com]

oh dear Bukowski, you are a genious among men.