Bukowski on Mundane Conversation and Poets

When I hear some people talking I am confounded with how far way they are from anything. Most of them speak what they have been taught, not what they have learned. And what they lack most are two things: gamble and humor. Especially the poets. The poets are the worst. But hell, I suppose if I were mainly a painter I'd say that the painters are the worst.

-Charles Bukowski, 1986

Quote from Bukowski

If you're going to do something you might as well do it.

-Charles Bukowski

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Well...

Since you're here.

Have a look around!

We do some creative writing

And when we don't feel like writing

We analyze the keyword patterns

That bring people to the site

And write things

That look like poems

But are more like rants.

Seriously.



-TLB

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Buy a Mac.

Seriously.

-Klaus

(Is that bad joke really the post for the day?)

(Yep! See ya Thursday!)

Bukowski Writes a Sample Rejection Slip

This is a rejection slip, and most of what we receive must be rejected otherwise our magazine would be ten miles long and nobody could afford to buy it even if we could afford to print it.

We too have been rejected and will be rejected again and again. In this business you must expect it. And when it happens you can either quit or write better or try another magazine.

It's true that sometimes a rejection is unwarranted. Our opinion is neither final or anything else. It's only our taste or lack of it. But we can only proceed as best as we think we might know how...

-Charles Bukowski to William Packard
July 13, 1984