falling in love once more

you dive into a hardback copy
of Charles Bukowski.

The Essential Bukowski.

it's poetry with a hammer
and
nine inch nails
driven into brick and board.

power saws and shovels
cut and bury the world in hard
struck letters
on his manual typewriter.

a lot of blood, blisters,
hard boiled
sentiments
and words.

and then you come across
a poem
called 'bluebird'

slipped into the mix
of drunkenness
and whores,
racetracks and bad luck,

and you fall madly in
love
with poetry once more.