Stingy Spring

In the library

Spare a thought for Tonino

Tonino Guerra died this week...

He co-wrote many of my favourite films and had Tarkovksy and Antonioni as his groomsmen.  They chose The Blue Danube to play while they signed the registry.

All eyes

Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky  

by Charles Bukowski 

against the wall, the firing squad ready.
then he got a reprieve.
suppose they had shot Dostoevsky?
before he wrote all that?
I suppose it wouldn't have
mattered
not directly.
there are billions of people who have
never read him and never
will.
but as a young man I know that he
got me through the factories,
past the whores,
lifted me high through the night
and put me down
in a better
place.
even while in the bar
drinking with the other
derelicts,
I was glad they gave Dostoevsky a
reprieve,
it gave me one,
allowed me to look directly at those
rancid faces
in my world,
death pointing its finger,
I held fast,
an immaculate drunk
sharing the stinking dark with
my
brothers.

Retirement

Music night

Ghosts