the poems of what matters most is how well you walk through the fire were written between 1970 and 1990 and are part of an archive that Charles Bukowski left to be published after his death.

click here if you want to read the spanish translation of the poem

bravo!

they applaud each work

without fail or thought

and four or five voices respond

with the same ringing

"BRAVO! BRAVO!"

as if they had heard a fresh

and vital creative

breakthrough.

where have the audiences gone

that were able to select and

discriminate?

now the thought in the collective mind of

the audience is:

we understand

we know

therefore we

respond

as one.

and afterwards

at the wheels of their automobiles

they dash out of the underground

parking lot

more rude and crass

than any boxing match crowd

than any horse race crowd

cutting off others

swerving

cursing.

the March to the Gallows, indeed

Pictures at an Exhibition, of course

the Bolero, yes

The Afternoon of a Faun?

honking

zooming toward the freeways

BRAVO West L. A.

BRAVO Westwood Village

BRAVO Hollywood Hills

BRAVO Beverly Hills.

Symphonie Pathétique, indeed.

 

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