Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window Poem by Charles Bukowski

Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window

Rating: 3.7


Sunday, I am eating a
grapefruit, church is over at the Russian
Orthadox to the
west.

she is dark
of Eastern descent,
large brown eyes look up from the Bible
then down. a small red and black
Bible, and as she reads
her legs keep moving, moving,
she is doing a slow rythmic dance
reading the Bible. . .

long gold earrings;
2 gold bracelets on each arm,
and it's a mini-suit, I suppose,
the cloth hugs her body,
the lightest of tans is that cloth,
she twists this way and that,
long yellow legs warm in the sun. . .

there is no escaping her being
there is no desire to. . .

my radio is playing symphonic music
that she cannot hear
but her movements coincide exactly
to the rythms of the
symphony. . .

she is dark, she is dark
she is reading about God.
I am God.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Joseph Francolino 09 December 2008

I think he says 'I am God' because he is looking in from the outside on her like God would look down on us hypothetically. He feels like he is controlling her too because she is moving to the rythem of His music. This set against the scene of church letting out has made him think about what he is viewing in a religious sense....So essentially he is tying God into what is going on in front of him because seeing the church put God in his subconcious thoughts and he feels he has power over her because she is moving to his beat so therefore he is like God. I hope that makes sense....

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Titti Barr 28 December 2008

Maybe she had to go potty. Those Russian Orthodox services can go on for a few hours!

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Gene Woodling 16 June 2009

CB says 'I am God' because to him we are all God. So is she, for that matter. That's why he writes about us as we are without judgment or distortion. She moves to his symphony because she is he, which is why he can't escape her being. CB saw it right where, stripped of pretense, we are God and all that there is.

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Robert Rorabeck 10 September 2007

Why the f-ck are you asking Bukowski a question? His is God and God is dead!

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Nick Halpin 06 April 2010

I see most women here didn't understand this poem..didn't 'get it'. Ask your husband / boyfriend (should he be blessed with a brain lol) - Especially 'Angel' I am God ! ! !

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Michael Walker 15 October 2019

A startling and dazzling poem. A coincidence that her dancing movements synchronize with the symphony. She is dark and beautiful, somehow biblical. ' she is reading about God./ I am God'. An unexpected ending indeed.

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Mahtab Bangalee 24 May 2019

girl she is dark she is white over all she is beautiful

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Gulzar Hussain ranjoor 30 March 2018

Very attractive

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Apostolos Rubin 19 October 2012

come on people get over it, he means he wished he was god if what SHE is reading has to do with god, he wishes she knew him or read about him

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Nick Halpin 06 April 2010

I see most women here didn't understand this poem..didn't 'get it'. Ask your husband / boyfriend (should he be blessed with a brain lol) - Especially for 'Angel'; I am God ! ! !

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