thanks vicki, but it could have been worse: i could have been
reading the textbooks. besides, i never thought bukowski was
a good person or correct in his take on most things (as Juri
pointed out: he was a drunken misogynist)--i just liked the
readability and honesty of his writing.
at 13 i was also the singer of a punk rock band, and that was
also better for me than junior high. schools are archaic
child obedience factory-prisons, mainly. at least mine
was.
i wrote a short story when i was 18 about a young rebel who
idolizes bukowski and tries to live like him. he runs into
chinaski at the race track and befriends him. bukowski is the
devil and chinaski is mephistopheles (or however you spell
it). i had friends who took crazy risks trying to out-wild
one another. i wrote a noirish novel about them. a lot of
latch-key kids like me grew up fast in the late 70s, but it
ain't nothing compared to kids today with instant net
access.
happy new year, d.a.
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vhend1234@aol.com wrote:
> Loved what you had to say about Bukowski,
David.
> However, it's scary that
> you were reading him in junior high!
> Vicki
>
>
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