Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit -

Charles Bukowski

HarperCollins

2003

125 páginas

4h 10m

ISBN-10: 0876854374

Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature

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waiting
in a life full of little stories
for a death to come

yes, yes, he starved and his
wife and his children
but he was true to
his ideals.

it’s so easy to be a poet
and so hard to be
a man.

sometimes it does not
take a man
or a woman,
only something alive;

with some men their conversation is better than
their creation

the ladies of summer
might love anybody;
they might even love you
as long as summer
lasts
yet winter will come to them
too

I told my son
and I dropped all my lovers.
I stood up in a cafe and screamed
I’M IN LOVE,
and now you’ve made a fool of me…

meat is cut as roses are cut
men die as dogs die
love dies like dogs die,
he said.

you fucked C. and then before I could move
you fucked W., so then I had to 🤬 #$%!& D. But
I want you to know that I love you, I think of you
constantly, I don’t think I’ve ever loved anybody
like I love you.

famous men seem to want
young women 
a young woman is easier
to get rid
of: they have more
places to
go

Red asked, “what do you
think?” 
I answered, “more afraid to die
than the rest of us.”

I’m like a bug under a rock
with that fear too

people who believe in politics
are like people who believe in god:
they are sucking wind through bent
straws.

we believed like dogs
believe.