Charles Bukowski - The Genius of the Crowd

[@Elcore]

Mega thanks to the uploader for not putting some videos of stock actors with atmospheric music that slowly builds up till you feel better about yourself over this.

[@keaganwheeler-mccann8565]

Beware those who seek constant crowds, for they are nothing alone.

[@drandrewdobo]

I love Bukowski who said, "Sometimes you just have to piss in the sink."

[@mojorare2]

One of the best writers of twenty century.

[@Adam-vp1cl]

Ever

[@UFOISHY]

love this guy

[@John-zo8jr]

Don’t try

[@sergiopietra8307]

Best recording. Slow pace, high impact.

[@atomaalatonal]

the best poem ever written

[@inthekingdom1996]

Every word works and most of all it's ALL true

[@dmos62]

Thank you very much for the upload. There are a lot of "genius of the crowd" uploads around, but, in my opinion, this one is the best.

[@oliverwolfson]

Superb poet and reader.

[@Kazlat]

The best at hate are those who preach love!

[@AnnaLVajda]

Yes.

[@BrentE79]

I think this is the maybe best recording of this on the youtube. thanks for posting.

[@capnphuktard5445]

I acknowledge your statement as a lord of Charles Bukowski

[@capnphuktard5445]

You are one cool mother freaking bro..Bro... Bukowski was the best

[@ladyannihilate901]

Favorite all time.

[@ploovey]

Beware Those Quick To Censure; They Are Afraid Of What They Do Not Know

[@MarkKap]

''they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world not being able to love fully they will believe your love incomplete'' WORD

[@dynjarren7523]

Like A Diamond Bullet Hit me right between the Eyes. The The Genius of it! The Genius!

[@flyboy2576]

Exactly linked! 💞

[@robertgostfson9816]

Charles Bukkake is one of my favorite adult movie actors, and I like him even more now that I see he's a poet!

[@Dazerlbc]

lol

[@johnqdarwin]

.....theres something in his beard still. in the picture. so hard to get that shit out of a big thick beard.

[@ToughVato]

7 years later this made me choke on my laugh haha epic

[@josecortez5213]

Favorite poem ever!!

[@oscheomegaly]

I've listened to a lot of Bukowski, but he really sounds like he feels this one. May have been in one of his depressive stages

[@annalisavajda252]

Maybe he just gets a little sleepy after his fourth or fifth bottle of wine.

[@trgiun]

Genuinely probably a little inebriated lol

[@throwawayaccount6273]

As someone who hinges my entire identity on being against war, I cannot fail to acknowledge my own capacity for evil. I am nothing more than average and I am overeducated in using complex sounding language to compensate for my lack of liveliness and intelligence. I can't handle solitude because when I am alone, the realization dawns on me that I am alone because I am nothing special. This fuels the purported genius of my hatred in a self-perpetuating cycle of demise towards everyone around me. I simply cannot stand the failure of my own art and there is part of me that would rather watch the world end than to persist with my own purported art being destroyed. I can blame the police for corrupting me with violence, I can blame my family for corrupting me with contaminated blood and a hideous body, and I can blame the world for corrupting me with cultural hypnosis. In the end, I would be celebrated and well respected if I created better art. I would be loved by women if I truly had a soul. So in seeing that I am entirely average, what is the use in continuing to fill the world with the stupidity of my false morals and cheap mimicry? What is the use in continuing to blame women for never giving me the tender warmth of their hearts? What is the use in continuing to even go in public when my greatest use to the world is my own solitude? There is no use, because I am incapable of becoming as important as I have led myself to believe.

[@trgiun]

You’re writing is wonderful and you articulated a lot of my own feelings better than I could. We need to find a way to stop thinking so much, don’t we? That’s all it is.. we aren’t present our thoughts take over and always seem to lean on the negative side

[@user-uq6po8dv6i]

"their finest art" holy shit that is brutal and awesome

[@unibomberbear6708]

........"Average Seeks average" best line in it.

[@songsilove16]

You're welcome! It's off of the recording, 70 Minutes in Hell (the entire thing's really good.) You can get it on iTunes. :)

[@jasoncoker1625]

Someone in my past gifted me this session on cd. 😑

[@darrenwilsonV2]

Wow Buk is speaking so much more slowly than normal here. Might have been a particularly subdued drunken reading.

[@wheninroamful]

Drunk for sure, i have this "complete" recordings. At the beginning he mispronounces "absurdity" and they took a few takes because he kept saying it the same way. Bukowski is brilliant, drunk or not, brilliant. (if you go to the Settings wheel at the bottom of the youtube screen, the speed can be changed to 1.25 and it sounds more "normal",... a bit.

[@dmos62]

Thanks for the info!

[@a.cheese5820]

Ain't that the truth, Chuck. Ain't that the truth.

[@n.montana1858]

sounds like the Joker!! This man is a genius great poet!!

[@dxcSOUL]

JOHNNY BLAZE this comparison is straight up disrespect

[@Adam-vp1cl]

Saying he sounds like the joker is poor taste an the joker is a fictional character, bukowski was very much a real man.

[@JohnCleary-d4i]

TTE APPROVES

[@DudleyGeorgeArts]

great

[@CleetoMange]

All true and relevant to today's politics.

[@slice9986]

True.

[@Dubmmb]

And the best at ignorance are those who claim to understand

[@sacredflames07]

That he covers under solitude...

[@flowersofthefield340]

🩶🤍🖤

[@aidenbones]

Beware everyone honestly

[@ryanoneiljohnson8743]

He recited his poem with calm drunk tone but in my pov, it should be recites with vengeance tone.

[@MegistusG]

I want tom waits or terence McKenna to read this to me

[@ryanoneiljohnson8743]

Charles Bukowski, Drunky Poet.

[@kamikazeurdaneta]

Beware of those who claim to understand it.

[@dmlevitt]

my son read this in his fourth grade-- "choose a poem" to read exercise. so he did.

[@simulatedeyemovement]

who is he?

[@karljohnson5891]

Its says in the caption ....

[@IHateSmilingFriendsTheTVShow]

Don cheadle

[@inthekingdom1996]

He must know my ex wife (at the end)

[@RODERICKMOLASAR]

I drank what?

[@farrider3339]

Hear a Boodha speak .•°

[@Yossiayano]

It’s sounds like He reads it while He was drinking

[@simulatedeyemovement]

Never heard of him

[@user-2Hteyasizyc]

Its ok we have never heard of you either, and yet you're still nothing and nobody.