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| by Ross T. Runfola |
| Henry Chinaski is dead. my world turned ass over when I heard the news. rooming house man whose come will spread no more. only death renders Buk incapable of erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and tales of ordinary madness. heir of John Fante. more bard of the barroom than barfly. translator of Los Angeles skid row. fucker of rhymes and visionary poetry in favor of bleakness and truth. major figure in European literary circles horseplayer outside the winner’s circle of American literati until the average American he gives meaning to tries to make him a cultural icon. Bukowski refuses to let celebrity devour him like Ginsberg. stale middle-American air the sailboats of San Pedro Madonna’s Hollywood do not make him soft. living hard on the street made him fear life not death. I pay homage to the great one by donating money for a toilet stall inscription in the women’s john at my college “To the underground poet Charles Bukowski who discovered more uses for toilets in American bars than Thomas Crapper could have ever hoped for.” A fitting tribute to Buk, who even in death can be near young snatch. the college president says the inscription is unfit for the academic world as if his fear of the unholy is fit for any world. Hell-Nixon got a twenty-one gun salute. why can’t Hank rest in peace in the women’s shitter? |
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| (JANUARY 26th, 2004) |