I would be very upset
if something ever happened
to my Bukowski collection.
I have 7 or 8 of his books now,
and one year into getting them.
He is not a cheap man.
I hope to one day,
have read all of his work
that was given the chance to
be published.

After all,
he is the reason most of us
realized that what we write
and how we write,
really is poetry.