Bukowski was known to say (paraphrasing) " It's not that I was such a good writer, it's just that others were so damn bad." But I am certain that he was an epic and profound writer that will always annoy the elite, even though he's been gone for a few decades. He left a legacy impossible to ignore.
@@LoveLensFactsYTList is too long (Zuckerberg, Diddy, Bezos, Dorsey, Theil, ....) But Elon certainly tops the list...first name that came to my mind too 😊
Always interesting when someone from the past writes something that seems to describe our present and predicted future (global warming etc), he’s a great writer 👍
Sometimes when I’m feeling a certain way, I really have nothing but hopelessness and fear. As much as I want to be positive I feel like I cannot escape a terrible end.
Life isn't about a good or bad end... Your living right now, that's what counts. And regardless of where you are going, in this moment you have a choice. You can smile, you can sing, you can even dance. And choose the destiny of the only moment that matters, this one.
@@lillybill4492 Sure. I feel you. I sing and I dance. But we are watching a bukowski video right? Not everyone has the energy to sing and dance all the time. Sometimes you get brought down very low, and some times things don’t work out , and you die unfulfilled. I appreciate your comment but it’s also somewhat missing the mark. You may talk of singing and dancing, but what about when the day comes that you are utterly defeated and you want only numbness.
@@shcxatter2 haha. Who are you wim hof? Lol. Ironically I really enjoy the deliberate cold exposure, and holy cow does it make me realize that I WANNA LIVE GET ME OUTTA HERE. Lol Thanks for the comment , I totally get your point. I kinda mean the depressed feeling of dying lonely and unfulfilled. Not so much literally the manner of my actual death, but the quality of my life, feeling like a victim, feeling misanthropic, feeling disconnected. This is bukowski isn’t it? I figured people here would understand that.
There are so many, present truths spoken in this poem. It is saddening, maddening, terrifying...all at the same time. What have we done? What will we do? Is there anything that can be done? I am ust glad i chose not to have children and foist this living hell upon them. I will be the last.
I was thinking the same ! What's more, my Father seems to have a similar view now he is 80yo. I listen to "The Crunch" sometimes, it resonates and its terrifying as you say. The bit about the clock and the loneliness cuts deep, because I know its true. All of humanity is in a tragic and hard existence.
@@hb7202 (There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day... ) Charles Bukowski. . We are encouraged to despise one another. I'm afraid we are doomed.
It reminds me of the old science fiction writers, of books & movies made, like 2001: A Space Oddessy, and One flew over the Cuckoo nest.., and Brave New World, etc, etc, etc...thank you C B ❤
The scary part is at least a couple of those lines have proven to be prophetic... I wonder how many other lines in the poem are, regardless of Bukowski's intentions, also snapshots of the future?
@@lloydsaul997 Judging by your holier-than-thou attitude and sesquipedalian linguistics, I would argue that you don't have too many to lose anyways. Indeed, I too am capable of producing a written composition in a manner that is replete with highfalutin verbiage and scholastic syntax. It is within my purview to employ a lexicon that is both rarefied and esoteric, thereby demonstrating my proficiency in the art of linguistics and my aptitude for the finer points of academic expression.
Only when man is gone, will the reign of useless madness end, and the silent eternity of the universe again bring sanity in its empty randomness. Man, i think i just channelled Bukowski's spirit for a second...
@@tylerphillips4083 Greedy politicians and the fools who continue to vote for them are the problems. By last count 81,000,000 of them! Soon to be 87,000,000 when you factor in the illegal immigrants recently arrived the last 2 years.
“Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes,” sounds like Charles predicted the influencer generation. Whether accidental or not, that’s where my mind went.
I first heard an abridged version of this poem in the intro of a song by MF DOOM. It has only ever become more haunting and true with the passing of time.
This reader did “Do not go gentle into that good night” and it is my favorite reading of that poem by Dylan Thomas. It used to be on youtube but is now gone. It used to give me great comfort. Anyone who could give me the name of this reader at the least, would be appreciated.
Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break As political landscapes dissolve As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree As the oily fish spit out their oily prey As the sun is masked We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes Born into this Walking and living through this Dying because of this Muted because of this Castrated Debauched Disinherited Because of this Fooled by this Used by this Pissed on by this Made crazy and sick by this Made violent Made inhuman By this The heart is blackened The fingers reach for the throat The gun The knife The bomb The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god The fingers reach for the bottle The pill The powder We are born into this sorrowful deadliness We are born into a government 60 years in debt That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt And the banks will burn Money will be useless There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets It will be guns and roving mobs Land will be useless Food will become a diminishing return Nuclear power will be taken over by the many Explosions will continually shake the earth Radiated robot men will stalk each other The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground The sun will not be seen and it will always be night Trees will die All vegetation will die Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men The sea will be poisoned The lakes and rivers will vanish Rain will be the new gold The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition The petering out of supplies The natural effect of general decay And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard Born out of that. The sun still hidden there Awaiting the next chapter.
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” (Gustave Le Bon, 2009, A standard English translation of the work originally published in 1895 in France as La psychologie des foules).
I've been a bag boy with a college degree for a while now. I just got offered a full time job yesterday. Just because you're born into something doesn't mean you need to die into that same thing
Start in Ukraine? Are you just completely dense to the climate collapsing and the sixth extinction event we are currently in??? Oh you don’t remember the endless imperial wars that the United States caused in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20+ years??? The dead 1 million Iraqi civilians you don’t remember Abu Ghraib? 7.25 minimum wage in the United States? 25,000 people die a day from hunger in the world ? Food being produced for profit not for life??? Oh you’ve realized because of Ukraine WTF LOL
This was a warning and not humanities inescapable fate. The end of the world happens every day, to some, for some, and for all. The judgement is by the internal god for the things that we do against each other. We cause our own suffering with our hatreds, our disrespect for ourselves and our surroundings, and our corruption of the true holy grail, LOVE. LOVE your enemy. Pray for them. We're all flawed, human, and I'm no exception. "This song was made in NYC, of rich man and preachers, and slaves, and if Jesus was to preach, like he preached in Galilee, we would lay Jesus Christ in his grave." - Woody Guthrie
A girl I dated once asked me why I'm so angry all the time. I told her it's because of how I feel, what I think of this life. She asked what I meant by that. I told her she didn't want to know. A few weeks later, curiosity got the best of her and she asked again. And again, I told her she didn't want to know. As the days passed, the more I told her, the more she asked, becoming almost obsessed with knowing, in an attempt to understand me better, I guess. Finally, I relented, and I told her. I said "People have told me I have hate in my heart. They have no idea that barely even begins to scratch the surface. I AM hate. I think we are long overdue for a good plague. Humans are a proverbial cancer on the face of the Earth. And I'm racist against the entire human race. When I look in the mirror I can't help but feel nauseous and sick at my stomach and I want to throw up because I realize that I am part of the human race. We not only create our own demise but with Revel in it. We're nothing more than a bunch of talking monkeys, stuck on this miserable ball of dirt. And God probably abandoned this place a long time ago. And if I were God, I'd regret ever creating such a foul and wretched species. F mankind! And F humanity." She didn't come around much after that. But I tried to warn her, but she wouldn't listen. She just had to know.
Unfortunately this species was endowed with just enough intelligence to grow and expand and manipulate the environment so that we are now a plague of epic proportions. If there is a god, they are malevolent and undeserving of worship. I’d rather go to hell than praise the lord. I was an atheist, but the design of this place is so evil I can’t help but presume it was created.
@JasonBrinkley-ef4zg Nah, just how I've always felt. It was a useful source of inspiration as a heavy metal singer. Most people think metal is just noise. But there are more sub genres of metal than every other music genre combined. If you haven't been through hell, it's likely you won't be able to write that kind of music and be authentic. Average people are usually too shallow to get it, but that's not necessarily bad. I'd rather be shallow and happy rather than deep and miserable any day of the week. Tragedy changes that, though. And no offense, I really don't care what you think sounds "cool." Or anyone else for that matter. I don't even care what people who know me think of me. Much less some random troll on some bs social media site.
I believe that, in the last days of the Roman Empire, someone used very similar words to describe the society. The fact is that we are living the last days of the Western Civilization and no one gives a damn. Just like in the last days of the Roman Empire.
@@brettharter143 multiple sources who understand poetry say the same thing that being, the meaning of the poem is to show "downfall of humanity and how priorities changed to greed, violence, and survival of the fittest." this is literally what i said.
@@brettharter143 priorities changed to greed and violence all caused by capitalism , and the rest of his poem he talks about violence and destruction of the society that once was, this is what I said.
The narrator aka Tom O Bedlam has the most beautiful voice....this dude is the embodiment of gravitas....he could read a receipt from a grocery store and it would sound like the Ten Commandments being espoused by god....Robert Frost reading his own poems sounded awful....sorry....beautifully written but by a professional orator like Tom....they become something else...
‘There will be the most beautiful silence never heard’
I felt that
Great line - great poem
I pray this is true.
But how did he know?
Born out of that
Bukowski was known to say (paraphrasing)
" It's not that I was such a good writer, it's just that others were so damn bad."
But I am certain that he was an epic and profound writer that will always annoy the elite, even though he's been gone for a few decades. He left a legacy impossible to ignore.
One of his best... and disturbingly prophetic.
Only one word fits the late, great Charles Bukowski: GENIUS!
RIP Hank
The words flow like truth bombs each one symbolising the future. Epic❣️
"Into a place where masses elevate fools into rich heroes "
Elon?
@@LoveLensFactsYTList is too long (Zuckerberg, Diddy, Bezos, Dorsey, Theil, ....)
But Elon certainly tops the list...first name that came to my mind too 😊
@@eleghari that's because he's often portrayed, almost literally, as the "hero" who will take us on Mars and other nonsense
@@LoveLensFactsYT"and other nonsense" indeed!
Don't the rich elevate the rich? Seems kind of one sided l
Me, a bag boy with a college degree... shit
A political long poem at its best. Bukowski is still fresh even after decades
Charles was a prophet. And now soon this poem will be reality
We’re just lacking space platforms, and the end of World War III. The rest is pretty much true.
This poem sums up our generational trauma. Sad that we have to witness all this.
Nice cheery start to the day
One of my favorites
Charles is so right, real and
Endearing with it.
Please give me a bucket for my tears.
Best poem ever!! But when it had the dark evil music with it, it hit like Eerie darkness!!
Always interesting when someone from the past writes something that seems to describe our present and predicted future (global warming etc), he’s a great writer 👍
Was.
Its not global warming, its decay.
Amazing how he predicted 2023.
Don't be so pessimistic... 2024.
@@shakeyshakyaged like shit didn’t it
We are in the time period where the world will shake!
or he just read the new testament...
Sometimes when I’m feeling a certain way, I really have nothing but hopelessness and fear. As much as I want to be positive I feel like I cannot escape a terrible end.
Life isn't about a good or bad end... Your living right now, that's what counts. And regardless of where you are going, in this moment you have a choice. You can smile, you can sing, you can even dance. And choose the destiny of the only moment that matters, this one.
At that moment, go jump into a frozen lake, it'll get you closer to that terrible end, and it'll make you see how far you actually were.
@@easypete2936 ok, I realize it
@@lillybill4492
Sure. I feel you. I sing and I dance. But we are watching a bukowski video right? Not everyone has the energy to sing and dance all the time. Sometimes you get brought down very low, and some times things don’t work out , and you die unfulfilled. I appreciate your comment but it’s also somewhat missing the mark.
You may talk of singing and dancing, but what about when the day comes that you are utterly defeated and you want only numbness.
@@shcxatter2 haha. Who are you wim hof? Lol.
Ironically I really enjoy the deliberate cold exposure, and holy cow does it make me realize that I WANNA LIVE GET ME OUTTA HERE. Lol
Thanks for the comment , I totally get your point.
I kinda mean the depressed feeling of dying lonely and unfulfilled. Not so much literally the manner of my actual death, but the quality of my life, feeling like a victim, feeling misanthropic, feeling disconnected.
This is bukowski isn’t it? I figured people here would understand that.
There are so many, present truths spoken in this poem. It is saddening, maddening, terrifying...all at the same time.
What have we done? What will we do? Is there anything that can be done?
I am ust glad i chose not to have children and foist this living hell upon them. I will be the last.
I was thinking the same ! What's more, my Father seems to have a similar view now he is 80yo.
I listen to "The Crunch" sometimes, it resonates and its terrifying as you say. The bit about the clock and the loneliness cuts deep, because I know its true.
All of humanity is in a tragic and hard existence.
This guy is simply the best - Bukowski
Brilliant 👏
.... and now here's Tom with the weather.
Another fascinating poem
Thanks for the upload 😀👍
What a terrible world we are born into... Charles Buckowski is the only writer who truly understood the world, for what it really is...
@Bob G It's beautiful because we are inevitably doomed. Permanence is boring, impermanence is exhilarating.
Its not the whole world, its a part of. On the other side you can hear the love for this world.
@@hb7202 (There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day... ) Charles Bukowski.
.
We are encouraged to despise one another.
I'm afraid we are doomed.
Sure not the only one.
There are many of us poets who still see it, but our words are so often overlooked, we are the voiceless. "Muted because of this"
Impeccable reading of this prophetic, visionary work.
Now to make this into a children's book...that's what this world needs now.
It reminds me of the old science fiction writers, of books & movies made, like 2001: A Space Oddessy, and One flew over the Cuckoo nest.., and Brave New World, etc, etc, etc...thank you C B ❤
The scary part is at least a couple of those lines have proven to be prophetic... I wonder how many other lines in the poem are, regardless of Bukowski's intentions, also snapshots of the future?
Beautiful 👍
Keep it up
Written 30 years ago, as if he were Nostradamus.
This isn't as much of a prediction as it is a warning.
@@lloydsaul997thats what a prediction always fucking was pal
This is man.The words speak of the fall of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Carthage, Spain, England, USA.... it's the history of human civilization.
@@lloydsaul997 Every statement has meaning.
@@lloydsaul997 Judging by your holier-than-thou attitude and sesquipedalian linguistics, I would argue that you don't have too many to lose anyways. Indeed, I too am capable of producing a written composition in a manner that is replete with highfalutin verbiage and scholastic syntax. It is within my purview to employ a lexicon that is both rarefied and esoteric, thereby demonstrating my proficiency in the art of linguistics and my aptitude for the finer points of academic expression.
This hit me hard.
Wonderful video selection, well made in general, love it
"I pity all such brothers of mine...."
Prophetic prose.
Powerful!
Only when man is gone, will the reign of useless madness end, and the silent eternity of the universe again bring sanity in its empty randomness. Man, i think i just channelled Bukowski's spirit for a second...
it's not the quality of humanity. it'd the quality of those who benefit from this destruction. from this hate
Thank you!
CB lived this, he knows it. The horror of it all and survived. Such writing should live on forever.
How convenient this poem is now. I foresee the future
If that's you in the profile picture, I must say you're very handsome :)
Wow, this sounds like it was written to describe today. Spot on.
"We are born into this sorrowfull deadliness"
Great truth most people cant admit and deal with.
Also love this quote "made crazy and sick by this"
awesome
Thank you for this
He dam sure got that right!
We are living this in Lebanon
we are living it everywhere this is capitalism working its magic. hopefully everyone will see this soon.
@@alexh7140 capitalism isn’t the problem
Don't worry, Shady.
The rest of the world will catch up to you very soon. 😥
@@tylerphillips4083
Greedy politicians and the fools who continue to vote for them are the problems.
By last count 81,000,000 of them!
Soon to be 87,000,000 when you factor in the illegal immigrants recently arrived the last 2 years.
Great mind
“Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes,” sounds like Charles predicted the influencer generation. Whether accidental or not, that’s where my mind went.
Why no one built a monument of this poet?
Like a futuristic nightmare ride ❤️
Sounds so much like Eliot's Hollow Men. Excellent!
I like it 👌
“On a visionary flood of alcohol”…
Leonard Cohen
I first heard an abridged version of this poem in the intro of a song by MF DOOM.
It has only ever become more haunting and true with the passing of time.
How did he predict all this
He looked all around him and he saw it.
Masterpiece
Our world … today.
What is the name of the backing music
Wow
This reader did “Do not go gentle into that good night” and it is my favorite reading of that poem by Dylan Thomas.
It used to be on youtube but is now gone.
It used to give me great comfort.
Anyone who could give me the name of this reader at the least, would be appreciated.
read description, its tom o bedlam
@@abysswatcherbutibitethedus872 Thanks
Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break
As political landscapes dissolve
As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree
As the oily fish spit out their oily prey
As the sun is masked
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Born into this
Walking and living through this
Dying because of this
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Because of this
Fooled by this
Used by this
Pissed on by this
Made crazy and sick by this
Made violent
Made inhuman
By this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bomb
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
We are born into a government 60 years in debt
That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
And the banks will burn
Money will be useless
There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets
It will be guns and roving mobs
Land will be useless
Food will become a diminishing return
Nuclear power will be taken over by the many
Explosions will continually shake the earth
Radiated robot men will stalk each other
The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms
Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground
The sun will not be seen and it will always be night
Trees will die
All vegetation will die
Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
The sea will be poisoned
The lakes and rivers will vanish
Rain will be the new gold
The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition
The petering out of supplies
The natural effect of general decay
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
Born out of that.
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter.
Fools into Rich Heroes.... kardashians come into mind 😶
Yes, and sadly, so many others!
That volta tho.
"we elevate fools into rich heroes" is a good one for elon musk
No. He's talking about celebrities. Musk is no fool.
He is @@mercurymachines4311
🤯🤯 Drop the Big One Already ! 💀☠️🤯🥀🥀🥀🥀
Born into this in order to remember you are NOT this
What movies are these?
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
(Gustave Le Bon, 2009, A standard English translation of the work originally published in 1895 in France as La psychologie des foules).
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive God.
People forget when he wrote this.
@Mark Archer 1993
This is dark
The negativity of alcoholism or correct deduction we will never know
1:29 "the masses elevate fools into rich heroes"
Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground
🖤
Sir music is too loud
I've been a bag boy with a college degree for a while now. I just got offered a full time job yesterday. Just because you're born into something doesn't mean you need to die into that same thing
❤️
i know this poem for so long but never thougt that it will start in ukraine, my country but here we go
Crazy
Start in Ukraine? Are you just completely dense to the climate collapsing and the sixth extinction event we are currently in??? Oh you don’t remember the endless imperial wars that the United States caused in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20+ years??? The dead 1 million Iraqi civilians you don’t remember Abu Ghraib? 7.25 minimum wage in the United States? 25,000 people die a day from hunger in the world ? Food being produced for profit not for life??? Oh you’ve realized because of Ukraine WTF LOL
alcohol used to be much better in the 90s i guess, what a powerful poem..
This was a warning and not humanities inescapable fate. The end of the world happens every day, to some, for some, and for all. The judgement is by the internal god for the things that we do against each other. We cause our own suffering with our hatreds, our disrespect for ourselves and our surroundings, and our corruption of the true holy grail, LOVE. LOVE your enemy. Pray for them. We're all flawed, human, and I'm no exception. "This song was made in NYC, of rich man and preachers, and slaves, and if Jesus was to preach, like he preached in Galilee, we would lay Jesus Christ in his grave." - Woody Guthrie
Cheers in rip, Charles 🙏
When was this written?
1993 i guess
“To masses which elevate fools in to rich heroes”
Ch. B.
Fooled by this, used by this, pissed on by this.
The birds of prey will be full of people and animals
One of his last poems; 1992.
A girl I dated once asked me why I'm so angry all the time. I told her it's because of how I feel, what I think of this life. She asked what I meant by that. I told her she didn't want to know. A few weeks later, curiosity got the best of her and she asked again. And again, I told her she didn't want to know. As the days passed, the more I told her, the more she asked, becoming almost obsessed with knowing, in an attempt to understand me better, I guess. Finally, I relented, and I told her. I said "People have told me I have hate in my heart. They have no idea that barely even begins to scratch the surface. I AM hate. I think we are long overdue for a good plague. Humans are a proverbial cancer on the face of the Earth. And I'm racist against the entire human race. When I look in the mirror I can't help but feel nauseous and sick at my stomach and I want to throw up because I realize that I am part of the human race. We not only create our own demise but with Revel in it. We're nothing more than a bunch of talking monkeys, stuck on this miserable ball of dirt. And God probably abandoned this place a long time ago. And if I were God, I'd regret ever creating such a foul and wretched species. F mankind! And F humanity." She didn't come around much after that. But I tried to warn her, but she wouldn't listen. She just had to know.
Unfortunately this species was endowed with just enough intelligence to grow and expand and manipulate the environment so that we are now a plague of epic proportions. If there is a god, they are malevolent and undeserving of worship. I’d rather go to hell than praise the lord. I was an atheist, but the design of this place is so evil I can’t help but presume it was created.
This probably sounded way more cool in your head lmao
@JasonBrinkley-ef4zg
Nah, just how I've always felt. It was a useful source of inspiration as a heavy metal singer. Most people think metal is just noise. But there are more sub genres of metal than every other music genre combined. If you haven't been through hell, it's likely you won't be able to write that kind of music and be authentic. Average people are usually too shallow to get it, but that's not necessarily bad. I'd rather be shallow and happy rather than deep and miserable any day of the week. Tragedy changes that, though. And no offense, I really don't care what you think sounds "cool." Or anyone else for that matter. I don't even care what people who know me think of me. Much less some random troll on some bs social media site.
This.
Sir this is a Wendy's
I believe that, in the last days of the Roman Empire, someone used very similar words to describe the society. The fact is that we are living the last days of the Western Civilization and no one gives a damn. Just like in the last days of the Roman Empire.
The plot for Fallout
Jesus Murphy Chuck you said it rest in peace
This guy hits home with me.. Cynical as hell but look around.. is he wrong?
he is explaining climate change and capitalism causing it in one poem. genius
Hes on about nuclear war you child
@@brettharter143 yes but the underline is what i said.
@@brettharter143 multiple sources who understand poetry say the same thing that being, the meaning of the poem is to show "downfall of humanity and how priorities changed to greed, violence, and survival of the fittest." this is literally what i said.
Thats not what you said at all though is it.
@@brettharter143 priorities changed to greed and violence all caused by capitalism , and the rest of his poem he talks about violence and destruction of the society that once was, this is what I said.
my last words
.......... MS. DEATH ☠️ LAUGHS ............
🖤🩶🤍
Ay i guess its not all that bad now.
Charles saw the hate in the world… and rote it through what it was…it’s not nonsense it’s truth…
The narrator aka Tom O Bedlam has the most beautiful voice....this dude is the embodiment of gravitas....he could read a receipt from a grocery store and it would sound like the Ten Commandments being espoused by god....Robert Frost reading his own poems sounded awful....sorry....beautifully written but by a professional orator like Tom....they become something else...
Although Charles bukowski is no doubt great writer I advice you to not his worldview as your own as his poems are nihilistic.
This poem is honest. He left out the part of having hope in spite of the negativity.