I Met A Genius - A poem by Charles Bukowski


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Charles Bukowski - I Met A Genius

I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train 
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.

it was the first time I'd 
realized 
that.

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Poet: Charles Bukowski (Charles Bukowski Art) Poem: I Met A Genius Comment 1 of 1, added on October 23rd, 2005 at 6:32 AM. Genius, pure genius....sparce and economical, to the point without saying " look at me"....like the poem itself, pure genius. Meaning, all poet is of truth and to be as truth we must be as children again......we live in a fog, do we really have the courage to rebuild and be ourselves, to start anew and go unto new shores like Christopher Columbuses? Can we be the genius , the geniuses of forgetting? Can we all say to ourselves one day awakening and born anew, "I never knew that"? DD D. Deubelbeiss from Canada More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, I Met A Genius, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Charles Bukowski with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Charles Bukowski Poem: I Met A Genius Last read: Dec 20 2009, 12:17PM Viewed 6752 times. Added on October 23rd, 2005 at 6:32 AM.

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