Bukowski
,
Bukowski
,
Mr. Pink
Startled Into Life Like Fire
in grevious deity my cat
walks around
he walks around and around
with
electric tail and
push-button
eyes
he is
alive and
plush and
final as a plum tree
neither of us understands
cathedrals or
the man outside
watering his
lawn
if I were all the man
that he is
cat -
if there were men
like this
the world could
begin
he leaps up on the couch
and walks through
porticoes of my
admiration.
- Written by Charles Bukowski, taken from his book Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame.
Way to give everyone what they want! Your adorable cat and Bukowski.
I've bought two Bukowski books because of your posts--What Matters Most is How You Walk Through the Fire, and The Last Night of the Earth Poems.
exactly shaun...what better on an early sunday afternoon contemplating what to do for the day but perchance get a mr. pink photo + bukowski verse! my girls love mr. pink and i call them over to the display every time you post one, and me and my son are nipping on bukowski more thanks to you and your posts.
ps. we are getting a kittie (in 8 wks.) too!