2022 Graphics Journal Page #25: Nov. 10 to Nov. 19

Imperfection Drive

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2022 Graphics Journal Page #24: October 26 to November 9

Deconstructing Personal History #1

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Life on Paper

Days run away from me

a pack of dogs

shuffling chaos in their weaving strides

I am left behind with

flickering frame

organizing them into

a fantasy of meaning

and their joyous leaps

chasing along scented paths

are lost in the words

that imprison possibilities of

such wild imprecision.

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2022 Graphic Journal Page #23: October 25

A Piece of Spring 1977

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Charles Bukowski: Consummation of Grief

His imagery is so solid so that when I reach for it, I can touch something real. Then sometimes he’s just a crusty old son-of-bitch, but it is all he’s got.

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I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry
and the water
is their tears.
I listen to the water
on nights I drink away
and the sadness becomes so great
I hear it in my clock
it becomes knobs upon my dresser
it becomes paper on the floor
it becomes a shoehorn
a laundry ticket
it becomes
cigarette smoke
climbing a chapel of dark vines. . .
it matters little
very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
I was born for this
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.

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Charles Bukowski (Photo by JARNOUX Patrick/Paris Match via Getty Images)

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