this poet
this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walked over and lifted the lid and vomited inside the piano. then he closed the lid and gave his reading.
they had to remove the strings from the piano and wash out the insides and restring it.
I can understand why they never invited him back. but to pass the word on to other universities that he was a poet who liked to vomit into grand pianos was unfair.
they never considered the quality of his reading. I know this poet: he’s just like the rest of us: he’ll vomit anywhere for money.
Autres oeuvres par Charles Bukowski...
