Charles Bukowski - Born Into This - Dinosauria, We

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

[@boredjay305]

MF DOOM "CELLZ" brought me here

[@skinbag420]

RIP

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@@skinbag420 😭

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DOOM from the realm of El-Ca-loom smelly gel fume

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MF DOOM sent me here

[@dekabmyco]

Same here, love em both :) rip to the legends!

[@randyscott9034]

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

[@thecryptopoet]

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.

[@jett7977]

Radiated men eat the flesh of radiated men...I fucking love how far he takes it in this poem.

[@cdream5414]

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.

[@lazlovictor]

C Dream style. "To do a dangerous thing with style is what i call 'art'." Hank was an artist.

[@rubendrabagdash655]

C Dream exactly:) His words is simple and revolutionary:)

[@drush81]

@@rubendrabagdash655 “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” - GO

[@MS-rg6ku]

I 100% agree his poems are raw and accessible

[@roby99]

older poetry was definitely wrote in a different way.

[@davidryals4168]

I love how 90% of this poem has come to fruition.

[@hatrack5977]

The last 10% is gonna really suck.

[@passionaria]

history tends to repeat itself if you're watching ;)

[@stevefadrosh6506]

about.95%.now

[@sleepyamir]

We're at 98%

[@stlstrkaudio5764]

APPROACHING IMPLOSIVE LEVELS OF APOCALYPTIC PREDICTION, SIR!!!

[@medicine2202]

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.

[@tyussouthern1306]

And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard

[@Eggwrite]

Stuff like this keeps me alive. These human thoughts. Poets helping me understand thoughts I couldn't put into words. nice

[@frankolm2795]

Beautiful. What a writer. A man with vision and balls.

[@Jack-sh6xr]

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

[@chasedbyfaun]

and now even more.

[@frazerdaman]

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

[@goldentoad5769]

Frazer P is exactly right. This poem will become only more relevant with time. The sun awaits the next chapter.

[@Jack-sh6xr]

@@goldentoad5769 yep, still relevant

[@dinosaurhunter4160]

I like how amused he is by his own words, at the end

[@monsieurclaudesac1545]

Yes it is.

[@nicolasciampone1515]

serious shit

[@kaskas2810]

Maybe it is not his words. Maybe he is just reading. In theese days it seems more like a prophecy than an oridinary poem.

[@kfarestv]

@@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.

[@alticooalberto3532]

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.

[@billmyers991]

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 🍻

[@billmyers991]

I woke up feeling a bit down, but now I've got something to look forward to

[@rosskalmbach2527]

Well if it works it works

[@TurbulentJuice]

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.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Turbulent Juice my first bukowski book was pulp a few days ago and I loved it so much.

[@astronot28]

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

[@MrRobster1234]

He was a walking, talking example of how much abuse the human body can take and still live past 70.

[@dorothyparker4394]

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.

[@shareefjosey7026]

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.

[@jantewierik3905]

Everyone else is a great example of how much abuse the human can take... just that... just that...

[@passionaria]

@@jantewierik3905 the world has become so politically correct and divided that humanity has lost the plot :(

[@ducksinarowpatience3670]

@Jimmy Jammy see what I see. A warming about RIGHT now.

[@jayzus1024]

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

[@diogenisgalinis2789]

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.

[@___DJ__]

Thank you!! 💙💯

[@faisalfahad7853]

The most beautiful & dark poem ever said .. .

[@lucasceller7748]

I love how at the end Buk goes “serious shit” as if he was reading someone else’s poem

[@manyeyeshere]

This poem hits so close to home. This poem is almost prophecy.

[@michaelpatterson681]

It's coming true, I had a feeling he was right.

[@ryanjames3610]

2020-2021 People get ready, there’s a train a coming!

[@lunaticfade4044]

Could happen; he says. Well Charles, you called it, it has already begun.

[@Cognatusinfinitum]

What a brilliant man

[@LahmedA]

Best poem i ever heard

[@Bakin_with_Blakleton]

Excellent piece. Live reading with the natural words at the end…

[@audiophile64]

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.

[@burakd621]

serious fuckn shit !

[@dreadedhalo]

MF DOOM showed me Bukowski.

[@deletartepierre257]

Just excellent and "visionaire".

[@johnmitchelljr]

I guess the truth will always be the truth. Thanks for sharing.

[@MetalGearTenno]

This man just prophecised over the fate of man. Frightenly accurate.

[@beelzebarb8230]

I love this man.

[@rosebooth8965]

Superb....the title alone is perfection!

[@mashajan]

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.

[@violette2673]

thank you

[@neyraeshalomi4419]

wow, he was so right. amazing. my favorite poem

[@tizzy1594]

What a brilliant man!

[@alticooalberto3532]

Brilliant and prophetic.

[@aaroncook7036]

I love the ending... its something to look foward to

[@superturkle]

im just glad to hear the author recite his poem; but holy shit what a poem

[@nick_brown]

Listening in 2021. Still so relevant.

[@marshalljohnson1910]

“The most beautiful silence never heard” chilling

[@Nafrodite]

recent news reminded me of this poem. i don't want to live in interesting times anymore.

[@VirginiaLynn1984]

Yep....

[@user-yz5it9qe1r]

this is my favorite thing ever

[@atomaalatonal]

the most important piece of lyric ever written

[@thebailey67]

ok Im hardcore about Bukowski.....but this left me..Speechless....

[@parkermorgan7565]

(sigh)...for all of his flaws...he truly was...a gifted man...rest in peace Hank.

I love the way he talks calmly but full of truth and anger at the same time. Bukowski, he was the real shit.

[@bobmarley5811]

He was predicing our present moment!! Drunk. but fucking wise!

[@rosskalmbach2527]

Good thing is we just started that space flight for billionaires thing. Still got some poem to go.

[@harryballz6358]

So this all happened yesterday? I must have slept through all that excitement.. Well shit!

[@PeaceRussie]

We are here. America 2020.

[@stephenkirk6226]

Respect

[@eugenegorman9697]

this is good.

[@RAOPTIMIST]

MF DOOM BROUGHT ME HERE!

[@feelsjeffman7787]

this is a checklist now

[@amarsalmi7239]

I'm reading Buko in French. A Big Big Writer

[@theonlygoat8973]

Quarantine brought me here - June 2020

[@thedaisyheaves]

this man spittin'

[@hyponomeone]

What a powerful poem. And all this shits gonna go down if humanity doesn't wise up.

[@ti225rt]

Man I'm so bummed now.

[@bopbopperono58]

"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.

[@jesterjacobs]

DOOM

[@bkr1895]

FROM THE REALM OF EL KELUM

[@maxtech1015]

Friedrich Nietzsche smelly gel fume

[@bigdee5412]

@@maxtech1015 Separating cell wounds, to Melly Mel boom.

[@maxtech1015]

Dee Jones revelations in Braille, respiration, inhale, view, nations fail and shaking of a snake tail, make do

[@krxwnvxk3432]

Max Milewski major vet, spaded thru the vest with a Bayonet!

[@anattablue]

I keep coming back its only newer

[@sjoerddondersteen1337]

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".

[@cathrynm]

At least it has a happy ending.

[@johnruggiero4205]

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.

[@dougmcclelland9599]

Did somebody say "u-rah?" His face matches hi personality perfectly 🥰

[@acannibalanimal]

darkness has beauty. bukowski is the truth.

[@hatrack5977]

“As the elevators break” ugh, and then “the state of natural decay” sums up entropy in society perfectly,

[@eduardovieira5286]

THE GREAT CHARLES BUKOWSKI👑❤

[@june8898]

Love him

[@JackyGeronimo]

@MartinaJindrova :) Yeah, you're totally right. :D He's just awesome in every way! :)

[@granspada4544]

Most of what he talked about is actually happening today. The rest is still to come.

[@HolloWolf35]

Yes

[@87danielitta]

Theo has a hard night :D he´s looking for inspiration to compose new songs in bukowski´s ideas :D

[@travisroth670]

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 ...

[@ike25young]

His critics couldn't even write a line!

[@XFalienxx]

cellz brought me here 2019

[@TheGrandGamers]

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.

[@siguchan7485]

born like this

[@williamotoole8668]

A great into humanity, the selfish will ruin us all

[@justinscrivner5457]

Morrison had the same outlook. "Unborn living, living dead".

[@tseng61]

Charles Bukowski brought me here.

[@jointstrike2]

as the lights go out...

[@eddytb1]

Sounds like he's speaking to H.S.Thompson there, at the end.

[@gordonm7038]

Watch the sky for signs...

[@gobbowarboss2914]

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 KZbin 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.

[@m.oldani]

Yeah.

[@najaraviel]

This is some serious shit, man. I mean, this could really happen

[@ryanpford77]

For all in my family

[@JackyGeronimo]

@blandad There were some riots in 1943, but the city was never burned down. Furthermore it has to be 'was mobbed', not 'is being mobbed'.

[@421whitney]

Genius

[@sleepyamir]

GODSPEED 2020

[@highecuador1873]

He predicted now

[@Bill-cv1xu]

Welcome to 2022.

[@MartinaJindrova]

@JacquelineRompf Okay.. I'm glad that it explained. Oh yes.. "Theo Hutchcraft in every way." I mean in Bureau/Daggers and Hurts way.. :) Or some other way. :D

[@jasoncraveiro4577]

Same here

[@TheBrandFire]

Into this

[@mermaidcandy]

@AngstKultur Nick Cave who is a musician too?

[@TubeCaramel]

"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.