Wax Job by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

[@SpokenVerse]

Bukowski's maxim was "don't try" and his poems seem to me to be an honest slice of life, with a deliberate absence of sophistcation and therefore I don't think that the double entendre was intentional. I agree that he was a essentially a comedian and he reminds me of Billy Connelly, coming from a similar background. There is honesty and humour in his observations. The antisocial persona role worked for him and he played it well.

[@vudu8ball]

This is so bleak it makes me laugh. For me Bukowski is all about how a person faces the horror of life with grace and style. Humor is a big part of that effort. I am pleasantly surprised you have done so many of his poems. He is my favorite.

[@bluespupil414]

The more I listen to Bukowski the more I am coming to love this guy!

[@mrpaulgrimm6129]

Love his real life grit

[@LAtoyboy]

Very good reading by someone who understands. Thank you.

[@reaganwiles_art]

you know it's very hard reading poetry, I hate my own voice, I recite my stuff into the voice recorder and I hate it; you are very good at this; there are about four poets I could ever stand to read their stuff: Eliot, Auden, Ted Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and that's about it, besides you. There is one poem called Homage to Apollinaire by Blaise Cendrars recited by who knows who I cannot name him, but I like that. It's here on KZbin. Besides that one poem your recitations are the only ones by someone other than the author that I can stomach.

[@punhoss]

I LOVE HOW YOU SAY "I got everything I need..'

[@punhoss]

THAT was Awesome.

[@xeliy]

basically he lost his 5 bucks?

[@liquidyodel]

the us died when they stopped making decent cars

[@thallassocracy]

The term has acquired a new, tamer. meaning in recent years, but according to Gershon Legman the 'wax job' was the original American name for the esoteric sexual practice which the French (and the English) call the Diligence de Lyon. I rather think Bukowski intended us to pick up this meaning when he titled the poem the way he did. I always think of Bukowski as a comic poet - in the mould of CS Calverley , or even George Outram. It sounds like you do, too.

[@claudiocruzat4624]

HC BUKOWSKI would have been a perfect stranger if it wasnt for the guy from the black sparrow books. 1970 a great year.

[@manfredvonrichthofen4738]

yes, children truth .is stranger than fiction or whatever.