BLUEBIRD | CHARLES BUKOWSKI

[spfizz]

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him, 
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you. 
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.

there's a bluebird in my

Comments

[foxgloveli]

I LOVE CHARLES BUKOWSKI

[spfizz]

SAAAAAAME. ♥

And this poem is just so much more vulnerable than a lot of his other works, leaving me all ohgoshmyheart.

[foxgloveli]

IKR? there's a band named after one of his poems too :D

[spfizz]

Yeah? What are they callledddd?

[eclats_de_voix]

I have a friend who is always telling me to read this Bukowski. Now I know why.

[lemniciate]

GOD, BUKOWSKI, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO LOVELY