8 Count Poem by Charles Bukowski

8 Count

Rating: 4.4


from my bed
I watch
3 birds
on a telephone
wire.
one flies
off.
then
another.
one is left,
then
it too
is gone.
my typewriter is
tombstone
still.
and I am
reduced to bird
watching.
just thought I'd
let you
know,
fucker.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Jane Campion 21 June 2019

What a laugh I gotout of this poem. His personality just shot through.

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Khue Khue 20 February 2010

This poem is weird. I like it.

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Kingsley Dorian 10 July 2007

Ha, you have to appreciate his blunt honesty, if nothing else. I like this one.

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Walter Durk 18 September 2007

I love his honesty and bluntness. As sad as the message may be at times, his writing often seems to include an element of humor.

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Tom J. Mariani 09 November 2007

Looks like writer's block. While he spent the full 8 couint on the canvas many times, the body of his work gives the rest of us inspiration to keep punching.

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Robin Hood 23 November 2022

This poem will age well. In 100 years from now a person will STILL lol at this one.

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Chinedu Dike 29 March 2022

A highly relatable experience.

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Diana 29 March 2022

Blunter than a broken pencil....Sillier than a bag full of hammers...So fantastically Charles Bukowski.... there was only 1 of him.

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Richard Wlodarski 28 March 2022

And the bird watching produced this POD. What brilliance!

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Kumarmani Mahakul 21 June 2019

Amusing expression. Beautiful poem. Well deserved as modern poem of the POD.

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