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Poetry Readings by Charles Bukowski
Music: Johann Johannsson - The Candlelight Vigil
Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse)
Full poem:
poetry readings have to be some of the saddest
damned things ever,
the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies,
week after week, month after month, year
after year,
getting old together,
reading on to tiny gatherings,
still hoping their genius will be
discovered,
making tapes together, discs together,
sweating for applause
they read basically to and for
each other,
they can't find a New York publisher
or one
within miles,
but they read on and on
in the poetry holes of America,
never daunted,
never considering the possibility that
their talent might be
thin, almost invisible,
they read on and on
before their mothers, their sisters, their husbands,
their wives, their friends, the other poets
and the handful of idiots who have wandered
in
from nowhere.
I am ashamed for them,
I am ashamed that they have to bolster each other,
I am ashamed for their lisping egos,
their lack of guts.
if these are our creators,
please, please give me something else:
a drunken plumber at a bowling alley,
a prelim boy in a four rounder,
a jock guiding his horse through along the
rail,
a bartender on last call,
a waitress pouring me a coffee,
a drunk sleeping in a deserted doorway,
a dog munching a dry bone,
an elephant's fart in a circus tent,
a 6 p.m. freeway crush,
the mailman telling a dirty joke
anything
anything
but
these.
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No Leaders Please by Charles Bukowski
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Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
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Music: Ludovico Einaudi - Experience (Tiny Desk Concert) Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and...
A Smile To Remember by Charles Bukowski
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So Now? by Charles Bukowski
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Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson - Melodia (iii) Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live, waiting to die. I wish I could ring in some bravery. it's a lousy fix but the tree outside doesn't know: I watch it moving with the wind in the late afternoon sun. there's nothing to declare here, ...
If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden
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Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson - Flight From The City Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. If we should weep when clowns put on their show, If we should stumble when musicians play, Time will say nothing but I told you so. There are no fortunes to be told, although, ...
The Crunch by Charles Bukowski
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Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Rocket Builder (Lo Pan!) Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: too much too little or not enough too fat too thin or nobody laughter or tears or immaculate non-concern haters lovers armies running through streets of blood waving winebottles bayoneting and fucking virgins or an old guy in a cheap room with a photograph of Marilyn Monroe many old guys in c...
The Secret of My Endurance by Charles Bukowski
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Nirvana by Charles Bukowski
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Music: Max Richter - Path 5 (Delta) Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere and it began to snow and the bus stopped at a little cafe in the hills and the passengers entered. he sat at the counter with the others, he ordered and the food arrived. the meal wa...
Genius of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski
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Music: Lucifers Waltz Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace those who preach god, need god those who preach ...
Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
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Music: Darren Curtis - I Was Always Right Here* Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerk...
The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
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Roll The Dice by Charles Bukowski
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Music: Scott Buckley - Red (copyright free) Speaker: Tom O' Bedlam (SpokenVerse) Full poem: if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail...
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Michael.S.Ryan.
    @Michael.S.Ryan. 6 годин тому

    The plot for Fallout

  • @gordontheseal
    @gordontheseal 21 годину тому

    We may be loved, yet cannot feel it. Similarly, our love ricochets into a void.

  • @erinobrien690
    @erinobrien690 День тому

    Whats the name of the song behind this recording?

  • @sylviamills631
    @sylviamills631 День тому

    Pauline...you died..Pauline you died..Pauline you died

  • @rishavroy5507
    @rishavroy5507 4 дні тому

    I just wonder one thing Why I always see Him in my dreams🌼🌺 Talking to me, 🌼🌺 Sometimes I m loving him🌼🌺 Sometimes I m crying holding his arms🌼🌺 He was a mere stranger But The truth is strange and difficult That being a stranger he never felt like stranger I felt like I knew him million of years and ages and decades ago🌼🌺 This is not the first time l m loving him Or Crying for him 🌼🌺

  • @sandorMrBeen
    @sandorMrBeen 5 днів тому

    All my respect..... but you could turn down this substandard music..

  • @flamindigo
    @flamindigo 6 днів тому

    Nice try; get a sound mixer.

  • @JD_Turner
    @JD_Turner 7 днів тому

    This is something else...

  • @user-hb1yo5ep9y
    @user-hb1yo5ep9y 8 днів тому

    I am.DAVID.😊 I.HAVE BEEN HERE for AWHILE❤ So "NOW" I thank "YOU" for having stayed so long😊❤😊

  • @-shadowist-5486
    @-shadowist-5486 9 днів тому

    We All Have This In Us. We Just Need To Know How To Release It

  • @AllMightsSimp
    @AllMightsSimp 10 днів тому

    I love Edgar Allan Poe poetry, one of my favorites of his are My Annabelle Lee. His poetry bring the story into my mind like a movie. It plays vividly innmy mind like a dream. Please continue reading his poetry.

  • @kertishardha2627
    @kertishardha2627 11 днів тому

    There are people who don't know how to recite a poetry or poem. Bit this reciter have that passion and understanding of the words holding the deep feeling.

  • @sethhornaday5943
    @sethhornaday5943 11 днів тому

    Burn me with a broken neck, chao and discord and disease, a waist of time psychosis, mutation

  • @sethhornaday5943
    @sethhornaday5943 11 днів тому

    Being burnt alive with broken neck the gods and people are not good to each other

  • @lasherslaugh4752
    @lasherslaugh4752 13 днів тому

    Such is this fucked up human condition . Conditioned .

  • @richardmurphy9006
    @richardmurphy9006 13 днів тому

    Jesus Murphy Chuck you said it rest in peace

  • @jasonthomas5450
    @jasonthomas5450 16 днів тому

    ‘The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead W H Auden has always been my favourite poet.

    • @Jan96106
      @Jan96106 14 днів тому

      One of my favorites. My favorite is probably George Herbert, even though I am not religious.

  • @Baybie004
    @Baybie004 19 днів тому

    im sorry, i miss you

  • @PH-qy1zj
    @PH-qy1zj 19 днів тому

    Beautiful

  • @helenamariabs
    @helenamariabs 20 днів тому

    holy shit the end I'm not ok

  • @Shaikh__sameer38
    @Shaikh__sameer38 21 день тому

    Kya gandu song h yr 😢

  • @101brydon
    @101brydon 24 дні тому

    Brilliant ❤

  • @AustinGhoste
    @AustinGhoste 26 днів тому

    I feel like I’m 76

  • @flowersofthefield340
    @flowersofthefield340 28 днів тому

    ................. If ‼️ 🫒🌍🕊

  • @dukemandu
    @dukemandu 28 днів тому

    One of his best... and disturbingly prophetic.

  • @KhayelihlePhungula-ix9yl
    @KhayelihlePhungula-ix9yl 28 днів тому

    My muse Charles where can I get this soundtrack

  • @taniadutta6163
    @taniadutta6163 28 днів тому

  • @Malono_007
    @Malono_007 29 днів тому

    "We are born into this sorrowfull deadliness" Great truth most people cant admit and deal with. Also love this quote "made crazy and sick by this"

  • @julieswiss1
    @julieswiss1 29 днів тому

    I couldn't disagree more.

  • @shaneoconwell2945
    @shaneoconwell2945 Місяць тому

    I just lost everything. Again. I'm so heartbroken and blinded by my own anxiety and depression. I've lost everyone I've ever loved bc I can't fix myself. I've tried antidepressants, therapy and exercise. I can only beat it for a little bit, but it always comes back.

  • @DesertThunderDownUnder
    @DesertThunderDownUnder Місяць тому

    Bukowski, LEGEND! 📚📖🫡

  • @bigcatproductions2789
    @bigcatproductions2789 Місяць тому

    🤯🤯 Drop the Big One Already ! 💀☠️🤯🥀🥀🥀🥀

  • @Levantine_boy
    @Levantine_boy Місяць тому

    This reminds me of a man sitting in an unsalted world beyond the mountains where all are respected and none are affected by the violence we throw at each other. Yet this peace feels slightly foreign - almost crazy- and somehow euphoric. A feeling of greater purpose unfolds with the menu before him; a world he feels like he belongs in, but does not deserve. A man that must remain unfeeling, unaffected and all masculine; or so, he believed before he reached that lone diner in the mountains.

  • @muhammadyasirali8927
    @muhammadyasirali8927 Місяць тому

    Bukowsky and Satie go so well together. Tom O' Bedlam sound so much like Bukowski... Its like listening to Bukowski in his voice.

  • @guidofaria6721
    @guidofaria6721 Місяць тому

    Who is Tom O'Bedlam? Is it an imaginary character? Where can I get more info on him? Anybody? Thanks

  • @user-eo4bs3vs8m
    @user-eo4bs3vs8m Місяць тому

    Kinda childish and not meaningful

  • @tonyjeymes9786
    @tonyjeymes9786 Місяць тому

    Very dark very sad but very true .

  • @kzrlgo
    @kzrlgo Місяць тому

    Wow how can you put this crappy music over a poem?

  • @khamodaz
    @khamodaz Місяць тому

    complete rubbish

  • @Lili-Benovent
    @Lili-Benovent Місяць тому

    More garbage from the Master of dismal depression, if you think this is good poetry, or even poetry at all then you're easily pleased.

    • @escanor113
      @escanor113 Місяць тому

      I think a good poet is able to put a feeling into words, and this poem does a good job of that, that feeling of fatigue from redundant days And even if you don’t like it, it’s a stretch to call it garbage, i think you’re just exaggerating your criticism since you believe bukowski is overrated

    • @Lili-Benovent
      @Lili-Benovent Місяць тому

      @@escanor113 First up, Bukowski never wrote even one piece of poetry, poetry has rhyme, rhythm and a story or a moral that's easily comprehended, all of Bukowski's work consists of his addled thinking, mostly under the influence of alcohol, he tells simple stories which might, or might not appeal to different readers, it's all subjective and what you might see as profound won't mean anything to others. Then there is the snob appeal in pretending to understand his bland and silly utterances, 'Oh I prefer a chablis to a burgundy and this little drop has a pleasant personality with just a pleasing touch of tanin" OR "I really see the deep meaning behind this abstract painting by Dali and isn't Picasso brilliant" Strange utterances attract the Sophists like ants to honey, so it is with Bukowski.

    • @Joe-mk2pj
      @Joe-mk2pj Місяць тому

      How dare you say that you yourself are garbage

    • @Lili-Benovent
      @Lili-Benovent Місяць тому

      @@Joe-mk2pj I didn't say that Bukowski was garbage, I said that the dismal drivel he wrote is garbage, read poetry by renowned poets and you'll see what I mean.

    • @escanor113
      @escanor113 24 дні тому

      @@Lili-Benovent that’s alright, I’d recommend the poets Rudy Francisco and Phil Kaye, you may like them

  • @andrewwaggoner6140
    @andrewwaggoner6140 Місяць тому

    ... beautiful. but damn 65, 66 thats not really that old is it?

  • @Werebat
    @Werebat Місяць тому

    I gave this poem to my wife when we married. It speaks to me of our first year together, where I did not feel ready to commit and planned from early on to end things after a year. She was the waitress who was unlike the women I had known, or maybe she was the entire cafe. When the time came - I really wrestled with it, because while I had really enjoyed our time together, I felt like I had made a promise to myself. But in the end, after we talked it out, she somehow told me exactly what I needed to hear - and so I did not get back on that bus. That was over 20 years ago, now. 20 wonderful years, and three more wonderful kids. I listen to this poem sometimes - usually the Tom Waits version - and shudder a bit, thinking of how close I came to getting back on that bus to… somewhere. Thank God I did not.

  • @abhishekthakur9036
    @abhishekthakur9036 Місяць тому

    Once again a dumb supposed German school boy moving to America and doing wonders

  • @jareddudley4380
    @jareddudley4380 Місяць тому

    A perfect recipe for Nirvana is pure, silencing, serene mountain snow. The "cut loose from purpose" enabled his perception of simple, magical, "unaffected" beauty. The waitresses natural humor, the not so crazy fry cook producing a particularly good meal, clean pleasant laughs from the dishwasher.

  • @rajatbashistha9801
    @rajatbashistha9801 2 місяці тому

    You are a deity, to whom I pray everyday. You're all what I had in me. You're a gift to me from God himself. I had planned to go grey with you. I never want to let you go. I just want you for myself. Time has made me it's victim making me a dying light. The light that has tried to show you all the thorns put on your way. I know you've always loved me, but remember that I still love you the same. I wish I could fill this void in my heart. I wish I could keep you with me. If I could tell you I would let you know. I love you babe. Aaru ❤️🍎ua-cam.com/video/FxAG_11PzCk/v-deo.htmlsi=9mamwlAeNGAvxlYE , more are there

  • @romanastrasheim5226
    @romanastrasheim5226 2 місяці тому

    ❤Thank you my dear friend. 🙏⚘

  • @LuisFlores-mc2tc
    @LuisFlores-mc2tc 2 місяці тому

    We are not good to each other because we are only human. We have limited time, energy, decisions, and resources. Because of these axioms and the system we live in things will not get better.

  • @Disfiguring_DC
    @Disfiguring_DC 2 місяці тому

    This got me man.

  • @OrganicHoneyCrisp
    @OrganicHoneyCrisp 2 місяці тому

    What the….

  • @CJBradley
    @CJBradley 2 місяці тому

    Life sometimes feels like humanity has nowhere to go from here, like we are sliding slowly down and out of view of everything else in the universe and that when it does no one will care, at least not in this tiny place we call home, this speck of dust in an endless sprawl of elements and space. Nothing really matters, nothing at all if we can't beleive in anything.