Poem: Where I Should Leave This.

I’ll always remember Bukowski, his crassness so funny for a time. But even when that was part of the thing, it was ultimately his way with a line –

the way, out of almost nowhere, he could melt your heart, by showing he even had one.

Nowadays, he’s deeply unfashionable. (Perhaps even more so than the word ‘nowadays’).

I remember reading through so many of …