Alone With Everybody by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

Bukowski always typed his stuff mostly using an Underwood or an Olympia. I didn't type it but used a font called Loveletter Typewriter - it's a free to download. There's a timeline of his life and work here: bukowski.net/ti...
The picture of the couple kissing is from the movie 'Blue Valentine' starring Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams. The movie came into my mind as I was reading the poem.
I found the graveyard picture here:
www.deviantart....
the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
nothing else
fills.

[@shizzlepie]

well that's cheered me up

[@wildernessradio1653]

what really hurts in this world is when no one is honest. This is an honest poem.

[@jamesmiller3548]

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[@mystro810]

A bit more optimistic than I'm used to from Bukowski

[@alfogel3298]

He expresses most peoples angst. But when he married Linda Leigh who had a spiritual Master ( Meher Baba) Buk softened up. His letters to me ( 28) were heartwarming. We mostly discussed the Race Track and I gave him some advice-since my dad and I we’re professional Handicappers back in the 1970s and early 80s. All love to all, Al

[@whitekiltwhitekilt1611]

Hank was a self medicated soul, drowning in depression, booze and cigarettes. Writing was an outlet for him to let the pain out and express it on virgin paper.

[@ericramirez4733]

Bukowski gets the loneliness in me. I've never understood how work so dark can illuminate so much, but I think I'm getting there. :) Yes, indeed, I know I'm getting there.

[@BukowskiQuotes]

Obviously nothing compares to Bukowski reading his own work but this works pretty well.

[@vudu8ball]

Ahhh! nothing like a little Mr. B first thing in the morning to make you want to call in sick and go down to the bar :) Actually hearing this makes me feel better. Thanks

[@DavidM2000AD]

RIP Charles, and thanks for all the laughs!

[@timhallas4275]

"No one ever finds the one." I found three or four, so far... I loved them all... They didn't need to love me back. I didn't need that. I never will. Love is not something you search for. It's something you give away.

[@GMJ7]

What a woeful way to end my evening. :( Curious how a poem out of the blue can seem to speak to one's own state of mind down to the very minute. Thank you for sharing this gem.

[@Prutsprogrammeur]

At 0:51 you can see a miracle: "Paris Hilton is reading a book !!!"

[@elekkr]

he is not here to make you feel better he is here to make you aware . If you are just a bit more aware than before this . You can see thru the cracks for something real . One instant of authentic real thing . If you had the one . there are chances you get a glimpse of even more until it make life worth living . That`s all what counts have the one moment of LIFE until than it is only filling the void the cemeteries with corpses etc

[@testafresco]

you have elevated his words into a whole new depth of field

[@JaeRell]

Blue Valentine was a great movie.

[@rami_ungar_writer]

That part about the graveyards hit a nerve for some reason.

[@mv1991]

Some good morning motivation.

[@andrewdixon1583]

man, you sure read the hell out of these poems. thanks.

[@MUGAN101]

Sir, your voice is dope!

[@l3randon56]

charles is the best. love the emotion he puts in it. fuckin great

[@susanburgess820]

Subbed. Hank you were a genius. Sorely missed by your fans😔😔😔❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏

[@CaroleMcDonnell]

You're sooo good! Such great choices.

[@krokodyl1927]

Deliciously morbid

[@peterb2325]

Thanks .

[@kentdavis8685]

one singular fate

[@kenneththepoet8225]

John Prine sang about this theme in a rather humorous way. We are the lonely all together...all together, we’re all alone.

[@saulbennett4677]

Taken from in my view Buk's best collection of poems - Love Is A Dog From Hell.

[@b3ateuzi]

+ ever! never ever did someone tell me something so sad and terrible.

[@sapoconde]

0:46 Bukowski with PARIS HILTON???? WTFFF!!!!!!!??

[@sameenshakya5188]

Fuck yeah awesome vid as always bukowski is awesome

[@nonsensicus4548]

wow, that is a fucking good poem. And that reader is devastating. shit.

[@mojoarmstretch7261]

Love the thumdnail

[@EmilioNilges]

There is a seldom a time when I flat out reject a poem on its ideas. Now I’m not a hopeless romantic mind, I don’t believe in love at first sight, but I damn sure believe in some people being something comparable to a perfect match. Rip

[@agrlfmtx]

oceans fill...but I know what he means. Not a happy one this time. telle est la vie T:)

[@mustaine75]

What graveyard is it in the end?

[@SpokenVerse]

I just look for suitable images using Google search. Then I acknowledge the source by putting a link in the notes. I found the picture here: www.deviantart.com/art/Jewish-Graveyard-I-23795013

[@Notherenorthere-iq4qx]

Bukowski was a trash of a human being. He wrote very poorly of women in general. As if women were all mere sexual objects for his delight, instead of complex beings. Most of his poems are (sorry... for me, overrated... so unorganized and, yes, shallow), but this one. This one. That ache is so accessible is almost physical, isn't it? I keep coming back to it. :)