Bukowski Charles - 1977 - Il canto dei folli: Poesie II by Bukowski Charles

Author:Bukowski Charles [Bukowski Charles]
Language: ita
Format: epub
Tags: American, Poetry, General
ISBN: 9788858834503
Google: 8XVsDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Feltrinelli Editore
Published: 2018-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

poetry readings

poetry readings have to be some of the saddest

damned things ever,

the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies,

week after week, month after month, year

after year,

getting old together,

reading on to tiny gatherings,

still hoping their genius will be

discovered,

making tapes together, discs together,

sweating for applause

they read basically to and for

each other,

they can’t find a New York publisher

or one

within miles,

but they read on and on

in the poetry holes of America,

never daunted,

never considering the possibility that

their talent might be

thin, almost invisible,

they read on and on

before their mothers, their sisters, their husbands,

their wives, their friends, the other poets

and the handful of idiots who have wandered

in

from nowhere.

I am ashamed for them,

I am ashamed that they have to bolster each other,

I am ashamed for their lisping egos,

their lack of guts.

if these are our creators,

please, please give me something else:

a drunken plumber at a bowling alley,

a prelim boy in a four rounder,

a jock guiding his horse through along the

rail,

a bartender on last call,

a waitress pouring me a coffee,

a drunk sleeping in a deserted doorway,

a dog munching a dry bone,

an elephant’s fart in a circus tent,

a 6 p.m. freeway crush,

the mailman telling a dirty joke

anything

anything

but

these.

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