Thursday, June 11, 2015

Bukowski no. 16

You told me
"You spend too much time reading while Reading.
Not writing or living."

Good lines. Should have written them but I didn't.
I was reading polemic Byzantine history at the bar
and feeling disgusted by the way my life turned out.
But who writes of things like that? No one. It is not
respectable.

I am home again now. Still not writing or living.
A wheel on the lawn-mower broke today and I will have to replace it
tomorrow.

You sold several paintings and I am glad of it
maybe one day you will make one a gift to me
and after you are famous and dead
I will sell it
and buy another beer.