Hey Chuck
This Throwback Thursday brought to you by Freesia McKee
S/tick, Issue 1.4
this guy brought a poem
to our workshop
about being a man.
they called
his poem
“bukowskian.”
almost everyone
at the table
loved it.
after the workshop,
one guy told me
to write a poem
that included the word
“cunt.”
he knows i write
poems about women.
what else is there
to say?
“bukowskian.”
do you get asked
what it feels like
to be a symbol
for something?
i’m writing
because to me,
you have become
a currency:
i know how included i can feel
if i quote you.
the cost
is that my chair
gets pulled
too close
to their table–
that is a poem
that will never be
bukowskian.
