Charles Bukowski - Born Into This - Dinosauria, We
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- Charles Bukowski - Born Into This - Dinosauria, We
Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 -- March 9, 1994) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife"Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction - Zábava
MF DOOM "CELLZ" brought me here
RIP
@@skinbag420 😭
DOOM from the realm of El-Ca-loom smelly gel fume
MF DOOM sent me here
Same here, love em both :) rip to the legends!
This is my favorite piece of poetry he’s spot on 25 years after he wrote it. Sounds like it comes from the mind of a prophet he doesn’t mince words
Radiated men eat the flesh of radiated men...I fucking love how far he takes it in this poem.
Charles Bukowski's poems are understandable. Most of the poems I had read before were incomprehensible to me, as if the poets purposely tried to confuse us and make us feel stupid or less than them.
But not Charles Bukowski' s poetry; he makes sure you understand him clearly and emotionally.
He's the king of poetry.
C Dream style. "To do a dangerous thing with style is what i call 'art'." Hank was an artist.
C Dream exactly:) His words is simple and revolutionary:)
@@rubendrabagdash655 “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” - GO
I 100% agree his poems are raw and accessible
older poetry was definitely wrote in a different way.
I love how 90% of this poem has come to fruition.
The last 10% is gonna really suck.
history tends to repeat itself if you're watching ;)
about.95%.now
We're at 98%
APPROACHING IMPLOSIVE LEVELS OF APOCALYPTIC PREDICTION, SIR!!!
Bukowski was direct in his poetry and transparent in his character, that's why he was so good. A breath of fresh air in a space filled with pretentious individuals.
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
This is the greatest poem ever wrighten ❤
Bukowski's words are beautiful, there isn't a poet who describes the human condition better than him.
Stuff like this keeps me alive. These human thoughts. Poets helping me understand thoughts I couldn't put into words. nice
Beautiful. What a writer. A man with vision and balls.
I remember revisiting this poem 5 years ago and was thinking “wow this is relevant”. Now today it is more relevant than I’d like to say
and now even more.
Unfortunately it will become more and more relevant as the days pass . Be kind to your self and one another for the future is not friendly
Frazer P is exactly right. This poem will become only more relevant with time. The sun awaits the next chapter.
@@goldentoad5769 yep, still relevant
I woke up feeling a bit down, but now I've got something to look forward to
Well if it works it works
I like how amused he is by his own words, at the end
Yes it is.
serious shit
Maybe it is not his words. Maybe he is just reading. In theese days it seems more like a prophecy than an oridinary poem.
@@kaskas2810 It will become a prophecy, depending on how we humans deal with the problems we are facing. We must evolve and the rulers, the rich and the powerful must either comply or be dethroned.
Because you don't create poem or art. but it comes to you. So, after a reading or a painting, you ask yourself how you can do such powerfull and beautiful thing.
I'm glad that some of his work has made it on to youtube where it stands a better chance of being seen by newcomers to his work instead of on bookshelves. He had style and certainly knew how things really were/still are (most impressively being able to effectively translate the message to the page). Read his books! He said in one of them that if people are still reading his stuff in 2020 then he will have succeeded.
Turbulent Juice my first bukowski book was pulp a few days ago and I loved it so much.
His work also lives on in the musicians he's influenced. I first heard Bukowski on MF DOOM'S heavily inspired album BORN LIKE THIS track 10 CELLZ
I listen to this daily to remind me why I'm here, to walk softly and carry a big stick, electric into darkness, like a cemetery at Xmas, as the blackbird walks at the end of feet..cheers Hank 🍻
The most beautiful & dark poem ever said .. .
This poem hits so close to home. This poem is almost prophecy.
He was a walking, talking example of how much abuse the human body can take and still live past 70.
Well, him & William S. Burroughs and Keith Richards. We really need to start thinking about what kind of a world we will be leaving to Keith Richards.
This right here is why I hope to tell my children one day not to think just because Keith can do it means that you can do it.
Everyone else is a great example of how much abuse the human can take... just that... just that...
@@jantewierik3905 the world has become so politically correct and divided that humanity has lost the plot :(
@Jimmy Jammy see what I see. A warming about RIGHT now.
Dinosauria, We
by Charles Bukowski
Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break
As political landscapes dissolve
As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree
As the oily fish spit out their oily prey
As the sun is masked
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Born into this
Walking and living through this
Dying because of this
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Because of this
Fooled by this
Used by this
Pissed on by this
Made crazy and sick by this
Made violent
Made inhuman
By this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bomb
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
We are born into a government 60 years in debt
That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
And the banks will burn
Money will be useless
There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets
It will be guns and roving mobs
Land will be useless
Food will become a diminishing return
Nuclear power will be taken over by the many
Explosions will continually shake the earth
Radiated robot men will stalk each other
The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms
Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground
The sun will not be seen and it will always be night
Trees will die
All vegetation will die
Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
The sea will be poisoned
The lakes and rivers will vanish
Rain will be the new gold
The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition
The petering out of supplies
The natural effect of general decay
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
Born out of that.
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter.
Thank you!! 💙💯
I love how at the end Buk goes “serious shit” as if he was reading someone else’s poem
It's coming true, I had a feeling he was right.
Best poem i ever heard
What a brilliant man
HipHop culture has brought me to discover Charles Bukowski because of MFDOOM and his use of this poem in his song CELLZ. HipHop and Poetry are such amazing forms of art
im just glad to hear the author recite his poem; but holy shit what a poem
MF DOOM showed me Bukowski.
Could happen; he says. Well Charles, you called it, it has already begun.
2020-2021 People get ready, there’s a train a coming!
I love this man.
Brilliant,unfiltered! Wisdom like this is painful to obtain but well worth it.Can you handle it? Be prepared its not gonna be pretty but truth often isnt.
serious fuckn shit !
“The most beautiful silence never heard” chilling
What a brilliant man!
This man just prophecised over the fate of man.
Frightenly accurate.
I guess the truth will always be the truth. Thanks for sharing.
the most important piece of lyric ever written
I love the ending... its something to look foward to
Excellent piece. Live reading with the natural words at the end…
Just excellent and "visionaire".
Listening in 2021. Still so relevant.
Superb....the title alone is perfection!
recent news reminded me of this poem. i don't want to live in interesting times anymore.
Yep....
(sigh)...for all of his flaws...he truly was...a gifted man...rest in peace Hank.
Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break
As political landscapes dissolve
As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree
As the oily fish spit out their oily prey
As the sun is masked
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Born into this
Walking and living through this
Dying because of this
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Because of this
Fooled by this
Used by this
Pissed on by this
Made crazy and sick by this
Made violent
Made inhuman
By this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bomb
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
We are born into a government 60 years in debt
That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
And the banks will burn
Money will be useless
There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets
It will be guns and roving mobs
Land will be useless
Food will become a diminishing return
Nuclear power will be taken over by the many
Explosions will continually shake the earth
Radiated robot men will stalk each other
The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms
Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground
The sun will not be seen and it will always be night
Trees will die
All vegetation will die
Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
The sea will be poisoned
The lakes and rivers will vanish
Rain will be the new gold
The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition
The petering out of supplies
The natural effect of general decay
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
Born out of that.
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter.
thank you
We are here. America 2020.
wow, he was so right. amazing. my favorite poem
Brilliant and prophetic.
Good thing is we just started that space flight for billionaires thing. Still got some poem to go.
MF DOOM BROUGHT ME HERE!
He was predicing our present moment!!
Drunk. but fucking wise!
What a powerful poem. And all this shits gonna go down if humanity doesn't wise up.
I love the way he talks calmly but full of truth and anger at the same time. Bukowski, he was the real shit.
ok Im hardcore about Bukowski.....but this left me..Speechless....
this is my favorite thing ever
So this all happened yesterday? I must have slept through all that excitement.. Well shit!
At least it has a happy ending.
“As the elevators break” ugh, and then “the state of natural decay” sums up entropy in society perfectly,
this is a checklist now
Respect
Quarantine brought me here - June 2020
Can't thank the underground blackened death metal legends Arkhon Infaustus enough for being my introduction to the mad genius Charles Bukowski through their song "Behind the Husk of Faith".
I keep coming back
its only newer
Did somebody say "u-rah?" His face matches hi personality perfectly 🥰
this is good.
Charles Bukowski brought me here.
THE GREAT CHARLES BUKOWSKI👑❤
This was written almost 50 years ago, and he talks about elevating fools, the expense of HC, expense of lawyers, oily fish, and the fingers reach for the bottle, pill, or powder. His poetry was like a premonition. Glad has already come to pass, and I expect he’s right about the end too. Nuclear explosions, airborne disease* etc that our generation will face sooner rather than later.
Most of what he talked about is actually happening today. The rest is still to come.
born like this
I'm reading Buko in French. A Big Big Writer
i dont even know if MF DOOM or modern philosophy brought me here but god bless both. if you ask me this shit is more relevant than ever, but god what an irrelevant yet timeless thing I've just said.
this man spittin'
Man I'm so bummed now.
"and there will be the most beautiful silence never heard. Born out of that. The sun hidden there, awaiting the next chapter." To me, this transforms the poem into an expression of the agony and beauty that are equal parts of creation, life and death. There must be mass destruction for things to change. Very Hindu.
cellz brought me here 2019
A great into humanity, the selfish will ruin us all
DOOM
FROM THE REALM OF EL KELUM
Friedrich Nietzsche smelly gel fume
@@maxtech1015 Separating cell wounds, to Melly Mel boom.
Dee Jones revelations in Braille, respiration, inhale, view, nations fail and shaking of a snake tail, make do
Max Milewski major vet, spaded thru the vest with a Bayonet!
Love him
Sounds about right Hank! - but how did you know all this was going to happen? & people said you were a drunken bum! what do they know? nothing nada zilch that's what ...
His critics couldn't even write a line!
We post our opinions of agreement, carefully thought out in the 5 second time-span between typing and clicking 'Comment' , most likely despite our own personal contributions to the hell on Earth we are slowly creating. We generally do not consider ourselves part of the masses. We, the timeless residents of the Online, the ultimate cornucopia of information in modern times. We continue ever forward, spelunking through the caves of CZcams videos, forums, comment sections, and internet shopping, video games and theatrical works, all the while filling our heads with the ideas and accomplishments of others while allowing our own intellect and character to decay. We unknowingly mold ourselves into creatures of habit, the easiest to predict. To Manipulate. To Control. We laugh at the grim and macabre, all but completely desensitized to the pain and suffering of millions across the globe, for life is abundant, and continues to flourish. What threat could anyone be to us, the commoners, the workers, the consumers? Surely it is the masses who hold all of the true power? Without us, the governments of the world are nothing, and this is surely well known. Surely we, the many, the ones who remain mostly anonymous despite our incessant infighting and malicious actions online, would not be troubled by the wars of our leaders, so far away across vast oceans and foreign lands. The spread of new, unknown illnesses and disabilities grows at an exponential rate, yet the internet, our greatest achievement in terms of communication and wealth, will surely give us the solutions to such a trivial dilema. The opinions of those we dislike or disagree with with be drowned out by the crashing waves of repetitive words and insults, for how could we, the masters of the information age, ever be disapprove? We are billions, yet we paradoxically maintain our unique individuality. We were created in the image of whatever we decide it was, for the massive gaps in history give us little answers to our origins, therefore making factual history irrelevant to us. Why bother to read ancient texts created by the less evolved, less intelligent of our race? We could easily obtain a summary of the information from any one of our trillions of trusted sources. We are infinite, for OUR ideologies can be recorded and archived for eternity. Surely OUR stories will be heard, unlike our poor, uneducated ancestors. Surely WE would not fall prey to such a fate, as described in the writings of Charles Bukowski. Of this, we are certain. Surely.
darkness has beauty. bukowski is the truth.
Yeah.
Yes
Morrison had the same outlook. "Unborn living, living dead".
Считаю, что один из лучших голосов Америки. Привет из России. Литературный талант ценится везде.
Надеюсь на трезвость мыслей американского общества, вам привет, с вами бы выпил.
This is some serious shit, man. I mean, this could really happen
"serious shit..." :D
Earth will destroy us before we will destroy it. People like to think that they are powerful and responsible, but in reality we are dust in the storm.
as the lights go out...
@MartinaJindrova :) Yeah, you're totally right. :D He's just awesome in every way! :)
For all in my family
Prophet of truth.
could happen.
+PrinceOfDenmark Is happening. This is the world we live in now.
@@Zedwoman now its happening
Anarchy is already here. A visionary. R.I.P.
🖤🖤🖤🖤
anarchy is not here. this is all the opposite of anarchy.
-Someone that doesn't know what anarchy is
Genius
Theo has a hard night :D he´s looking for inspiration to compose new songs in bukowski´s ideas :D
Most of that has already happened, as he predicted. The radiated men are next.
it's happening.
Big Cormac McCarthy The Road vibes . . . Wonder if McCarthy read Bukowski . . .
Watch the sky for signs...
GODSPEED 2020
Same here