Charles Bukowski - Jan 14, Iyengar II

Formerly, my favorite Los Angeles poet, describes extraordinary, ordinary.

this place

twenty-five thousand fools

lined up for a free hamburger

at the racetrack today and got it.

in 1889

Vincent entered a

mental asylum in

St. Remy.

1564: Michelangelo, Vesalius,

Calvin die; Shakespeare, Marlowe,

Galileo

born.

caught a flounder yesterday,

cooked it

today.

midst the din of this

imperfect life

a blinding flash of

light

tonight:

when I let the

6 cats in

it was so

perfectly

beautiful

that

for a

moment

I

turned away

and faced the east

wall.