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Poem: Buk Review

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Jun 10, 2015
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I read Bukowski’s “Love is a dog From Hell” just the other week.

Re-read it, I should say.

It didn’t make as much sense now as it did when I was 20.

For back then it meant the world.

Now it is just a small handful of really great poems.

And anger, and fear and frustration masquerading as war-stories, hero-stories sometimes.

Hero-stories by a giant loser.

A los…

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