martes, abril 17, 2007

how to be a good writer

by Charles Bukowski


you've got to fuck a great many women
beautiful women
and write a few decent love poems.

and don't worry about age
and/or freshly-arrived talents.

just drink more beer
more and more beer

and attend the racetrack at least once a

week

and win
if possible

learning to win is hard -
any slob can be a good loser.

and don't forget your Brahms
and your Bach and your
beer.

don't overexercise.

sleep until moon.

avoid paying credit cards
or paying for anything on
time.

remember that there isn't a piece of ass
in this world over $50
(in 1977).

and if you have the ability to love
love yourself first
but always be aware of the possibility of
total defeat
whether the reason for that defeat
seems right or wrong -

an early taste of death is not necessarily
a bad thing.

stay out of churches and bars and museums,
and like the spider be
patient -
time is everybody's cross,
plus
exile
defeat
treachery

all that dross.

stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover.

get a large typewriter
and as the footsteps go up and down
outside your window

hit that thing
hit it hard

make it a heavyweight fight

make it the bull when he first charges in

and remember the old dogs
who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.

If you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms
just like you're doing now

without women
without food
without hope

then you're not ready.

drink more beer.
there's time.
and if there's not
that's all right
too.

5 comentarios:

Omar Gómez De Luca dijo...
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www.somosalma.com dijo...
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www.somosalma.com dijo...

Perdon que borre el anterior, pero decia esto:
Me encanta ese poema de bukowski, me encanta todo lo que este ser escribe, y como dice que hay que escribir...
espero mas...algo tuyo podria ser no?

Anónimo dijo...

stay with the beer...gran consejo

Omar Gómez De Luca dijo...

Los poemas del gran Chinaski, los repoduzco dependiendo de mi estado anímico, y de que tanto recuerde del mismo poema.