Comments on SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS: poem for a stand up guy, in beer

Congraulations ib, wonderful news! I hope Milo is...

2011-09-12T23:24:38.184+01:00

Congraulations ib, wonderful news!

I hope Milo is feeling better.

Man. All this and a scholarship too... There'...

2011-09-11T16:30:36.234+01:00

Man.

All this and a scholarship too...

There's gotta be a tune or two there somewhere.

Especially the head-butting part.

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Cheers, Wim. Buk probably would not have have giv...

2011-09-10T20:44:15.830+01:00

Cheers, Wim.

Buk probably would not have have given much of a damn, but it's the thought that counts.

@eloh: I seldom venture into bars these days. The...

2011-09-10T20:35:01.631+01:00

@eloh:

I seldom venture into bars these days. The fact that one is only permitted to smoke outside, in the rain, is sufficient encouragement to keep my pockets buttoned down.

Your dad sounds like he was a pretty decent guy.

Thanks.

Well. I would not denounce Ginsberg as the panderi...

2011-09-10T20:01:50.980+01:00

Well. I would not denounce Ginsberg as the pandering sort either, although I stand by the observation that he was more keen to engage with an audience. He was a lot more comfortable, I think, undressing the body politic.

A lot of people saw Bukowski read. A lot more came in contact with Ginsberg.

Sadly, for all manner of reasons, I saw neither.

Bukowski could be quite drunkenly boorish, by all accounts. In performance not so much crippled by shyness, as outraged by the predictable flirting with disorder his appearances provoked.

On balance, I find the impoliteness of hecklers by far the more offensive.

That whooping it up at the merest imagined prompt always grabs my goat.

Cheers Ib. I'm sure Buk would've been prou...

2011-09-10T19:59:22.506+01:00

Cheers Ib. I'm sure Buk would've been proud.

Wonderful news!! You have me in tears. I'll b...

2011-09-10T19:01:37.497+01:00

Wonderful news!! You have me in tears. I'll be an "I knew him when..."

Your poem took me back to my young teen years when my mother (who never learned not to complain) told my dad he spent so much time at the bar he should own it.... so he bought it... some of the early morning crowd were epic to say the least.

Shit, I almost forgot to congratulate you. Take th...

2011-09-10T17:03:43.878+01:00

Shit, I almost forgot to congratulate you. Take their money and make them regret it. But not till later. Much later.

I heard Ginsberg read in Paterson, New Jersey, whe...

2011-09-10T17:02:04.940+01:00

I heard Ginsberg read in Paterson, New Jersey, when I was 16. I heard Bukowski in San Francisco when I was about 21 or 22. Both gave great readings. Ginsberg, however, was polite. I wouldn't call it pandering. Buk was rude to the crowd. That part didn't impress me.