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We used to quote from Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, which had also provided free use of Buk's cartoons, on a monthly basis, but other Webbers wound up doing the same. The current poem, written upon Buk's death, was emailed by a kind reader of our pages...
But I couldn't even get his address
For the birthday card
I tried to send him on his 60th
and so
instead
I settled
for the recurring fantasy
of somehow getting through
via publisher
or pub
and finally
swapping unwritten words
comparing our
sirens and sluts
dead-end marriages
and careers
blow-jobs
and bar fights
in a neon night
electric enough
to still
for a couple of hours
our hurtle to death.
You can still read up on how Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora got the chance to adapt a Buk story as an independent anthology film.