2009
12.13

bukowski never wrote poems

about breakfast
on brick patios

three slices
of english muffin toast

the kerosene aftertaste
of organic strawberry jam

or a white, suburban morning
clean,

like a three-fingered mouse


© Ag Synclair, 2009
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  1. New piece posted!: another ode to bukowski http://amphibi.us/all/another-ode-to-bukowski/

  2. RT @amphibius: New piece posted!: another ode to bukowski http://amphibi.us/all/another-ode-to-bukowski/

  3. Wonder what organic raspberry jams aftertaste is?? Love that ending!

  4. But he was a brilliant son of a bitch.

  5. thank you, ladies….

  6. buk love his horse racing and mercedes, but always had a drunken vomit on the couch at breakfast because he couldn’t stagger as far as the patio…

  7. maybe because he woke up a lunch time and ate hard boiled eggs