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did i ever tell you
Contributed by
JohnYamrus
on
Thursday, 13th December 2007 @ 04:12:27 AM in AEST
Topic:
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did i ever tell you
about the time
Linda said i was good,
but that id never be
Bukowski?
Linda was a poet.
one of Bukowskis
girlfriends
in the 70s.
for a while
she edited and published
a pretty decent little magazine.
she wrote to me saying
that she loved my poems
actually, its been so long now
i really dont remember
if she loved them
or liked them,
but it doesnt matter
she said that i was good,
but i would never be great
because i wasnt
mad.
Bukowski (she said) was mad
and he was
great.
i wrote back
saying that she was right
Bukowski IS mad
and Bukowski IS great,
but if one of the qualifications
for being mad
and being great
was having to put up with the likes of her,
then id be more than happy
to settle for what i am
and what im
going to be.
that was 30 years ago,
and do you know what?
im still not mad
and im still not
great
but, every now and then,
when the moons just right
im not
half bad.
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