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   >>>>> 1) I'm not going to search though 1,000s of Usenet threads   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I've bumped it to the top for you several times, Pendragon.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Apparently you didn't want to see it because it proves you wrong and we   
   >>>>> all know you're not good with being proven wrong.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I don't open 99% of your   
   >>>>   
   >>>> --   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, that thread you should open rather than whining endlessly about   
   >>> it.   
   >>>   
   >>> The thread is easy to spot, I think the title is:   
   >>>   
   >>> Bukowski.   
   >>   
   >> I scrolled through the topics that are currently showing up and found   
   >> one titled: "Re: Charles Bukowski."   
   >>   
   >> It quotes someone posting under the Username of "baloney" posting about   
   >> how he and Barfly had a "pirate" thing going on, then proceeds to quote   
   >> a Jimmy Buffett song.   
   >>   
   >> I'm assuming that "baloney" is you.   
   >>   
   >> "baloney" then says:   
   >>   
   >> "It probably goes without saying that Buk's one of my favorites, though   
   >> his name hasn't come up much lately (the last time was prbably when I   
   >> compared Chuck's "shock" style to Buk)... Dale Houstman gave me a very   
   >> memorable paperback book blurb quote when he wrote that I was "...a   
   >> better poet than Bukowski..." or something similar.   
   >> Anyhow, I don't have the book handy and no time to Google (a few hours   
   >> of sailboat repair await today) but "Boarding House Madrigals" is the   
   >> poetry book of Buk's I'd name as a favorite out of the dozens out   
   >> there, containing many favorites which were fun to read aloud when the   
   >> time came to wake up the audience. The one where Buk writes   
   >>  "...My old lady wouldn't let me sleep..." a few more lines "...so I   
   >> killed her."   
   >> and the one where he wakes up from a drunken night and finds his   
   >> friend with his big toes in his old lady's... well, you can guess   
   >> where, or know the poem already... I might look these up later, if   
   >> they're online somewhere, and post them here... great stuff."   
   >>   
   >> This is *not* a critical analysis of one of Bukowski's poems   
   >   
   > It is definitely poetry commentary, which is what we do here, Harry.   
   >   
      
      
   It is not what I'd asked for, nor is it what you'd promised to deliver.   
      
   If I were conducting an English Lit course, and asked for a critical   
   analysis of a Bukowski poem, you would have FAILED.   
      
   But, as Cujo has pointed out -- that's really you thing.   
      
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