Back in the late '90s in San Francisco, a favorite roommate of mine named Jules would get very animated each time she talked about this poet, Charles Bukowski. At the time, I hadn't heard of him and was intrigued only because she was so enthusiastic about his poetry. When she came home with a video of him to share with me, I became an instant Bukowski fan. What a character! I love his simple, plain wit and charm.
Below is a poem of his I found on www.poemhunter.com/poems/music/. I hope you like it. Gotta love the technology he describes in this poem, now long past, but the poetry lives! Here then is Bukowski...
with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
Charles Bukowski
Side note: Cool place in Boston, near the Harvard campus, me and the band mates visited while doing shows in the Boston area. Lots of Bukowski poetry in the decor and great food to boot!
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