Consummation Of Grief - A poem by Charles Bukowski


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Charles Bukowski - Consummation Of Grief

I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry
and the water 
is their tears.
I listen to the water
on nights I drink away
and the sadness becomes so great
I hear it in my clock
it becomes knobs upon my dresser
it becomes paper on the floor
it becomes a shoehorn
a laundry ticket
it becomes
cigarette smoke
climbing a chapel of dark vines. . .
it matters little
very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
I was born for this
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.

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Poet: Charles Bukowski Poem: Consummation Of Grief Poem of the Day: Jan 14 2006 Comment 1 of 1, added on January 14th, 2009 at 4:32 PM. I used to call him America's only living poet. Then he died. What made him great, besides his ability to put down the real quivering guts of the matter at hand, was the fact that anyone could understand his poetry. You did'nt need a degree in poetry, or to be able to read half-a-dozen languages. I hope that the people who translate him into all those other languages do a good job, because the world needs to hear him plain and straight. andy middleman from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Consummation Of Grief, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own.

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Poet: Charles Bukowski Poem: Consummation Of Grief Last read: 2013-05-24 06:40:16 Poem of the Day: Jan 14 2006 Viewed 9508 times. Added Feb 20 2003.

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