Be Kind Comments

Amazing poetic expression.

they have aged badly because they have lived out of focus, they have refused to see. yes many refuse to see the truth. tony

one is asked to view their total error their life-waste with kindliness, a fine thinking. tony

I wonder if Bukowski felt that writing this poem, amongst so many others, was a crime or a waste...

OH SHl..... This man ruthlessly lit garbage moral customs on fire 50 years ago in the name of truth and withdrawal. It’s not beautiful like a flower, it’s beautiful like cold justice.

excellent poetic expression- age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life....//

so interesting poem and asking- not their fault? whose fault? mine? .............

10 out of 10. Straight on target and raw. Although I do believe you can still exercise compassion, but you don't need to understand them to be able to cultivate it.

Age..... I get a little bit of it. Age gracefully or you yourself may fall out of grace. Beautiful

No messing with this man.....

quite frank i guess as Bukowski is apt to be!

I am over 60 myself and as the population is aging I encounter more and more useless people who have wasted their lives and upon getting old someone seem to demand respect and I refuse to give it unless it is deserved

very true...it's like a hammer.....respect the aged they say...kindness is one thing.......admiration is another, Bukowski is the most unpretentious poet I've ever read.

Straight poem, it is like dart straight on target, Well written.

How true that we are ironically asked to be kind while people are living lives that are unexamined and dictated by herds that lead to nothingness. Bukowski cuts through things with honesty and without pretense.

Thadious Worthington: You have lived your life out of focus and are foolish. You are also yucky. Please go away and take your teeny-bopper like angst with you, you are neither amusing nor thought-provoking. In fact, I am sure that reading your comment has actually sucked some of the thoughts out of my brain. Thank God they weren't very good ones.

This is the judgmental nonsense that I have heard from alcoholics. They are all fearful of being judged but never pass up a chance to do the judging themselves. Who is anyone to determine that you lived out of focus or are foolish. Yuck.

I love this man...wish he was still writing

everything he writes is just so simply true.

Bukowski.....The most under rated poet of the 20th Century..... True. Only the level of alianation he experienced can produce that kind of spirit.