Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do Poem by Charles Bukowski

Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do

Rating: 3.2


I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
the book once radical-communist
John ended up in the Hollywood Hills living off investments
and reading the
Wall Street Journal

this seems to happen all too often.

what hardly ever happens is
a man going from being a young conservative to becoming an
old wild-ass radical

however:
young conservatives always seem to become old
conservatives.
it's a kind of lifelong mental vapor-lock.

but when a young radical ends up an
old radical
the critics
and the conservatives
treat him as if he escaped from a mental
institution.

such is our politics and you can have it
all.

keep it.

sail it up your
ass.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Tim George 27 March 2010

As usual-RIGHT ON! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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Jim Deroc 10 August 2008

sail it up your ass. ha ha gonna borrow that one buk if ya dont mind

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Walter Durk 25 September 2007

A great contemporary poem with a chuckle.

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Thad Enouf 30 October 2006

A poem perfect for today's American politics.

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