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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Charles Bukowski
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:23:25 +0000
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Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>
>>> Mack A. Damia wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Turned this meme into a kind of poem. Reminds me of Eliot's "The
>>>> Hollow Men".
>>
>>>> I see men assassinated around me every day.
>>>> I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of
>>>> the dead, cities of the dead;
>>>> Men without eyes; men without voices; men with
>>>> manufactured feelings and standard reactions;
>>>> Men with newspaper brains, television souls
>>>> And high school ideas.
>>>> - Charles Bukowski
>>
>>> Excellent... again, BUK is indeed one of the greatest of modern age
>>> poets....
>> There's really no doubt about that, love him or hate him, Buk has earned
>> his place in the poetry pantheon.
>
> Indeed...!
>
> The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski - BBC Bookmark (1995)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr-XwqKxrM4

Good evening, good find.