tonight, par Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

tonight

“your poems about the girls will still be around

50 years from now when the girls are gone,”

my editor phones me.

dear editor:

the girls appear to be gone

already.

I know what you mean

but give me one truly alive woman

tonight

walking across the floor toward me

and you can have all the poems

the good ones

the bad ones

or any that I might write

after this one.

I know what you mean.

do you know what I mean?

#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

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