The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 1/27/06)

[RetroLounge]

For Jane: With All the Love I Had, Which Was Not Enough:

I pick up the skirt,
I pick up the sparkling beads
in black,
this thing that moved once
around flesh,
and I call God a liar,
I say anything that moved
like that
or knew
my name
could never die
in the common verity of dying,
and I pick
up her lovely
dress,
all her loveliness gone,
and I speak to all the gods,
Jewish gods, Christ-gods,
chips of blinking things,
idols, pills, bread,
fathoms, risks,
knowledgeable surrender,
rats in the gravy of two gone quite mad
without a chance,
hummingbird knowledge, hummingbird chance,
I lean upon this,
I lean on all of this
and I know
her dress upon my arm
but
they will not
give her back to me.

Charles Bukowski

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RL

[yvr girl]

1. That's so sad.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

11. Yes.

:hug:

RL

[In_The_Wind]

2. RL

[SeattleGirl]

3. Wow

The sense of loss really comes through, RL. :hug:

[Sugar Smack]

4. Wow. That one really got to me.

Thank you. :hug:

[RetroLounge]

10. Yeah, it got me too...

:hug:

RL

[Rising Phoenix]

5. how sad... I like it..

[miss_american_pie]

6. Bukowski again?

Do you need hugs or flirting today?

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

7. I'll take both, of course...

:hug: :hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

8. Well then...

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Ah, my dear RetroLounge.....

No wonder you like Bukowski so much......

This is heartbreaking, and beautiful.

In just a few words, he expresses so much......

I thank you......

[RetroLounge]

12. You are welcome!

:hi:

:hug:

RL