suburban_relapse

Ah fuck! I hate being sick, I feel so helpless! But it does give me a chance to read. Here's a great Bukowski poem I like:

O Tempora! O Mores!

I get these girly magazines in the mail because
I'm writing short stories for them again
and here in these pages are these ladies
exposing their jewel boxes -
it looks more like a gynecologist's
journal -
everything boldly and clinically
exposed
beneath bland and bored physiognomies.
it's a turn off of gigantic proportions:
the secret is in the
imagination -
take that away and you have dead
meat.

A century back
a man could be driven mad
by a well-turned
ankle, and
why not?
one could imagine
that the rest
would be
magical
indeed!

now they shove it at us like a
McDonald's hamburger
on a platter.

there is hardly anything as beautiful as
a woman in a long dress
not even the sunrise
not even the geese flying south
in the long V formation
in the bright freshness
of early morning.


Now, while I agree that a woman in a long dress is gorgeous, and that there is far too much "hamburger" shoved at us in the guise of erotica, I must say that I definatly like to see a hot girl in ALL her glory when the situation calls for it.

Okay, okay, I like hardcore porn too. Jeez....