Just uploaded another spoken word video, filmed and edited by those clever buggers at Manufacturing Content.
I expect that anyone who's tried job-hunting recently will be able to relate to this one.
If you like this poem, the book it appears in, Over Glassy Horizons, is free to download on Kindle until Tuesday. UK customers can get it here, US customers can get it here, and anyone else can just search for it on their country's Amazon site, whatever that may be.
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nicorez:
I saw 'Barfly' with Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, back before both of their faces melted, @cardinalfire. Wasn't impressed, to be honest. The Bukowski documentary, 'Born Into This', is worth watching. It's on YouTube. Really enjoyed 'Howl'. Franco's meant to be working on a movie adaptation of Bukowski's 'Ham on Rye', which should be interesting.
cardinalfire:
Barfly that was it. I only have vague memories of it, of him getting fired and just moving on. I do remember it kind of lacked the 'transcendent quality' of his poems though. In his poems he makes going to the races something more than that, and getting fired and doing other jobs like almost something to look forward to or like part of life necessary for his work, hard to explain. I felt the movie at times was a bit boring and didn't have that same special quality.