Monday, January 13, 2003

Pull A String, A Puppet Moves Comments

Rating: 3.3

each man must realize
that it can all disappear very
quickly:
the cat, the woman, the job,
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Charles Bukowski
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Paul S 06 December 2019

Clear, crisp images. I love 'the china crashing to the floor.'

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Raymond Farrell 21 July 2015

I love this poem because it depicts how haphazard life can be to those living it.

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Maddy White 05 April 2014

This is perhaps one of the most truthful pieces I've had the pleasure of stumbling across.

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Jax Ann Newton 10 September 2009

this is sooo great! and oh so true.

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Liv Jade 30 March 2009

Larry, I do believe this is a place to make comments on the poem, rather than insult people, including the poet. Your claims have little to back them up. But it's okay, your ability to hate this man and his poetry just makes me love him all the more.

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Larry Gorlitz 09 January 2008

Well they are both writers so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to compare them would it, I think it was fairly obvious I was saying Shakespeare is quite a good one and Bukowski not so much. And Doug surely this is a place to comment the poem rather than insult people.

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Bertha Cummins 30 October 2007

GORLITZ: *laughing*....was that accidental or intentional...your mention of comparing Shakespeare with Buk? ? ....if accidental....check out Bukowski's work....'Shakespear Never Did This' 'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.' William Shakespeare, 'As You Like It'....no matter your opinion of Buk....HE knew who/what he was...and he let the world know as well PAUL: that is EXACTLY what great poetry/poets do....reach out and touch and draw the reader in... DOUG: everyone's entitled to their opinion(s) ....even a jackass...lol

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Doug Cummings 17 October 2007

Gorlitz you are a jackass.

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Paul Williams 30 September 2007

What a great poem blunt but also heart breakingly sad i know i've been there!

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Larry Gorlitz 22 September 2007

As much as I hate him, I think 50 Cent has written better 'poetry' than this garbage. There's nothing poetic about listing a series of words such as cat, woman and job and then recounting stupid events other than the fact that a new line starts mid sentence. This man's no Shakespeare rather a fool.

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Paul S 06 December 2019

Either you get it, or you don't. You don't.

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Kathleen Alm 11 August 2007

i don't think that many people see that the simplest smallest things can change a life or several lives and this poem shows that.

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come on men. no comments. this is one of the great poems this man made. all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha... can serve as your undoing. that is amazin.... so true. so simple to see. dont you see it.

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