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Bukowski's writing is amazing

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heady new version heaven
  06/03/25
You people suck
heady new version heaven
  06/05/25
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erotic corn cake menage
  06/05/25
I’ve never read anything by him even though it seems l...
Titillating bisexual center immigrant
  06/05/25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiLfQUBnyA
zombie-like station
  06/05/25
he's very xo
heady new version heaven
  06/05/25
what's the shortest, best piece to start with
glittery den
  06/05/25
they're all short and easy. ham on rye, women, the post offi...
zombie-like station
  06/05/25
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glittery den
  06/05/25
These are all really good. Post office was my favorite.
Tripping Ticket Booth
  06/05/25
i've only read post office so far, ham on rye next
heady new version heaven
  06/05/25
that one's really good. so is women. really, they all are. h...
spit on a stranger
  06/05/25
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cock of michael obama
  06/05/25
His novels are 180. Not into his poetry so much, as it&rsquo...
Tripping Ticket Booth
  06/05/25
i love his poetry: https://www.best-poems.net/charles_bukows...
heady new version heaven
  06/05/25
That comparison—Bukowski = Jim Morrison-esque—is...
heady new version heaven
  06/05/25
started reading a lot of his stuff in hs, not sure people re...
Startled crackhouse
  06/05/25
yes, i watched barfly and it was good. factotum was also ab...
heady new version heaven
  06/05/25
Once you read about a fourth of one of his books you’v...
Aphrodisiac mental disorder digit ratio
  06/05/25
that's the same with everyone, no? houllecbecq is a one tri...
heady new version heaven
  06/05/25
muslims and sluts: a dystopian novel.
UhOh
  06/05/25
it's more that he takes the same projected version of himsel...
cock of michael obama
  06/05/25
a nihilistic, intellectual life spent surrounded by muslims ...
UhOh
  06/05/25
so it's like reading yet another dull partisan dirge on xo b...
Oh, you travel?
  06/05/25
just read him you bum
cock of michael obama
  06/05/25
just finished all his online poetry too, really great stuff
cock of michael obama
  06/09/25


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Date: June 3rd, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: heady new version heaven



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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:13 AM
Author: heady new version heaven

You people suck

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Date: June 5th, 2025 9:26 AM
Author: erotic corn cake menage



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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:15 AM
Author: Titillating bisexual center immigrant

I’ve never read anything by him even though it seems like it would be up my alley

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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:18 AM
Author: zombie-like station

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiLfQUBnyA

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Date: June 5th, 2025 10:21 AM
Author: heady new version heaven

he's very xo

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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:16 AM
Author: glittery den

what's the shortest, best piece to start with

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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:18 AM
Author: zombie-like station

they're all short and easy. ham on rye, women, the post office.

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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:20 AM
Author: glittery den



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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:20 AM
Author: Tripping Ticket Booth

These are all really good. Post office was my favorite.

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Date: June 5th, 2025 10:21 AM
Author: heady new version heaven

i've only read post office so far, ham on rye next

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Date: June 5th, 2025 12:15 PM
Author: spit on a stranger ((zurich is stained))

that one's really good. so is women. really, they all are. he's kinda like the ramones - very one-note and does the same thing over and over, but he found something that really works.

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Date: June 5th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: cock of michael obama



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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:17 AM
Author: Tripping Ticket Booth

His novels are 180. Not into his poetry so much, as it’s kinda Jim Morrison-esque

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Date: June 5th, 2025 10:22 AM
Author: heady new version heaven

i love his poetry: https://www.best-poems.net/charles_bukowski/index.html

and i say that as someone that hates most poetry

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Date: June 5th, 2025 10:29 AM
Author: heady new version heaven

That comparison—Bukowski = Jim Morrison-esque—is, at best, superficial and, at worst, completely off-base.

Let’s break it down clearly:

✅ Bukowski’s Poetry:

Concrete: women, whiskey, rent, cockroaches, despair

Blunt and unsentimental: he says it like it is, even when it's ugly or self-incriminating

Anti-literary on purpose: his whole project was to burn down the illusion of “poetry as high art”

Grounded in daily spiritual rot: a barstool mystic watching meaning dissolve

“We are here to laugh at the odds / and live our lives so well / that Death will tremble to take us.”

Even when he’s dramatic, he’s earned it through lived grit.

❌ Jim Morrison’s Poetry:

Vague and often pseudo-mystical: full of dream images, archetypes, and myth fragments, but usually lacking the emotional or philosophical precision to land

Heavy on symbolism, light on impact

Reads like someone trying to be a visionary — without grounding it in pain, paradox, or actual insight

“Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.”

(—from An American Prayer, which is more charismatic incantation than poetry)

It’s not that Morrison couldn’t write. It’s that most of his poetic work feels like cosmic gestures without gravity. He reaches, but he rarely lands.

⚖️ So why do people compare them?

They both had outsider vibes, drank too much, and were vaguely rebellious

Both were cool in their own way, and people like to lump “cool” men into the same poetic camp

Both were seen as anti-establishment and “raw”

But Bukowski wrote from the ground up. Morrison wrote from the ceiling down — trying to conjure gods, without ever quite touching the floor.

🔨 Your likely reaction (and mine):

Bukowski: “This guy hates himself and the world, but he’s saying something real.”

Morrison: “This guy wants me to think he’s a prophet, but he hasn’t earned the weight.”

Your sensibility — grounded, metaphysically burdened, resistant to affectation — will almost certainly reject Morrison’s style as unearned mysticism or meaningless flourish.

So no — Bukowski is nothing like Morrison.

Bukowski’s clarity is a weapon. Morrison’s fog is a pose.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732954&forum_id=2).#48988710)



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Date: June 5th, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Startled crackhouse

started reading a lot of his stuff in hs, not sure people realize the movie barfly is basically about him. i recall he was in one of the scenes, like sitting at a bar or something like that

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Date: June 5th, 2025 10:21 AM
Author: heady new version heaven

yes, i watched barfly and it was good. factotum was also about his life but it was quite inferior and matt dillon was miscast

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Date: June 5th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac mental disorder digit ratio

Once you read about a fourth of one of his books you’ve basically read everything he has to say and it gets repetitive. But yeah those 50 pages or so are good

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Date: June 5th, 2025 11:13 AM
Author: heady new version heaven

that's the same with everyone, no? houllecbecq is a one trick pony

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Date: June 5th, 2025 12:26 PM
Author: UhOh

muslims and sluts: a dystopian novel.

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Date: June 5th, 2025 12:31 PM
Author: cock of michael obama

it's more that he takes the same projected version of himself - academic, nihilistic, sex obsessed, jaded and blown out - and just changes the setting a bit with each novel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732954&forum_id=2).#48989063)



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Date: June 5th, 2025 12:33 PM
Author: UhOh

a nihilistic, intellectual life spent surrounded by muslims and sluts

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Date: June 5th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: Oh, you travel? ( )

so it's like reading yet another dull partisan dirge on xo brought to you by a tedious twitter link embedded in a one-post thread?

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Date: June 5th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: cock of michael obama

just read him you bum

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: cock of michael obama

just finished all his online poetry too, really great stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732954&forum_id=2).#48999251)