Me, Bukowksi and a Bar Fight 

In a foreign land the thing 
I search for obsessively is Chai, proper Indian Chai
ironically it has lead me to various coffee shops 

there he sat with a 'tall' of something 
and a copy of The Old Man and the Sea 
      fucking poser
but then I think that of anyone 
reading in a coffee shop 

it reminded me of Bukowski
and how he hated all Hemingway was toward the end 
voicing what I felt 
I was no one to say it was a lousy book 
but he could, Bukowski could 
and I wondered about all the books I've read 
writers I admire 
and I bet he would have had something scathing to say
about most if not all 

Charles Bukowski--
the reason I chose a pen over my fists
he loathed- poets and poetry reading snobs 
half-assed novelists 
self-absorbed rants dressed as writing 
the list of people who were
at the sharp end of his talented vitriol is long

Bukowski and I walked into a bar 
if that ever happened 
and I told him I was trying to be a writer 
he would have said something I didn't like
would've been a good fight 
I fight better than I write

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