sweet of a sinner

kvetchlandia:

Charles Bukowski Uncredited and Undated Photograoh
“I pick up the skirt,
I pick up the sparkling beads
in black,
this thing that moved once
around flesh,
and I call god a liar,
I say anything that moved
like that
or knew my name
could never die
in the common verity of dying,
and I pick
up her lovely
dress,
all her loveliness gone,
and I speak
to all the gods,
Jewish gods, Christ-gods,
chips of blinking things,
idols, pills, bread,
fathoms, risks,
knowledgeable surrender,
rats in the gravy of 2 gone quite mad
without a chance,
hummingbird knowledge, hummingbird chance,
I lean upon this,
I lean on all of this
and I know:
her dress upon my arm:
but
they will not
give her back to me.”
Charles Bukowski, “For Jane: With all the love I had, which was not enough”

Charles Bukowski Uncredited and Undated Photograoh

“I pick up the skirt,

I pick up the sparkling beads

in black,

this thing that moved once

around flesh,

and I call god a liar,

I say anything that moved

like that

or knew my name

could never die

in the common verity of dying,

and I pick

up her lovely

dress,

all her loveliness gone,

and I speak

to all the gods,

Jewish gods, Christ-gods,

chips of blinking things,

idols, pills, bread,

fathoms, risks,

knowledgeable surrender,

rats in the gravy of 2 gone quite mad

without a chance,

hummingbird knowledge, hummingbird chance,

I lean upon this,

I lean on all of this

and I know:

her dress upon my arm:

but

they will not

give her back to me.”

Charles Bukowski, “For Jane: With all the love I had, which was not enough”