Rob Ayling writes:
"Thom the World poet, is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearences with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)
"SHARING THE PREJUDICE OF EXPERIENCE"
(Charles Bukowski on Friendship)
Sean Penn had an itching for Chinaski.
He
offered to do BARFLY for a dollar.
Bono
wrote a song/as did Dennis Hopper.
Outlaws,.artists,.alcohol,.personal
disasters.
"DON'T
TRY!".his epitaph,.BLUEBIRD his best.
Most
of his oeuvre on BLACK SPARROW PRESS.
I like Ben Gazzara in TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS.
Loathe
BARFLY, bored by FACTOTUM, BORN INTO THIS.
Have
yet to see LUNE FROID, CRAZY LOVE or THE KILLERS.
Loved
LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL & BONE PALACE BALLET.
Liked
POST OFFICE and his little chapbook stories and poems.
Disagreed
with his misogyny, pessimism, antipathy towards humans.
Loved
his iconoclasm, wit, dry humor, and wisdom.
Those
poems on his Macintosh computer, wistful and dreaming,
just
as his twilight years found him settled and secure,
before
an ulcer took him in 1994. He had a choice -
work
@the Post Office and go crazy, or write and starve. He chose to
starve
and
drank his way into cigarette black and white LA film noir fame.
You
can find the ghost dog of him barking on YOUTUBE again.
It
is far too late to emulate Henry Charles Bukowski. Don't Try!
He
was "Locked in a arms of a crazy life".
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