{"id":1720,"date":"2009-05-29T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2009-05-29T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T12:39:00","slug":"gwilym-williams-is-holding-a-bukowski-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gwilym-williams-is-holding-a-bukowski-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwilym Williams is holding a Bukowski night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bukowski Night<\/span>
 <\/span>

I'm holding my annual Bukowski Night<\/span>
I almost wish you were all here<\/span>
 <\/span>
but if it don't come bursting out of you<\/span>
then please don't come<\/span>
 <\/span>
Allen's come to do his Kaddish<\/span>
 <\/span>
uninvited<\/span>
 <\/span>
or so he always says<\/span>
 <\/span>
it could be cool <\/span>
it should be cool<\/span>
it comes unmasked and from heart and mouth<\/span>
 <\/span>
the Buds are cooling in the icebox<\/span>
the olives are in the communal dish<\/span>
 <\/span>
whispering Allen's already warming up <\/span>
 <\/span>
my God, this dude wrote Howl!<\/span>
and now he sounds like he needs a mike<\/span>
 <\/span>
Charles is pilfering my shelves<\/span>
 <\/span>
and betting on Allen to extrapolate the extrasensory<\/span>
Charles reckons the sun is burning his gut<\/span>
 <\/span>
how come the moon is out?<\/span>
 <\/span>
I slip on the Dylan  <\/span>
 <\/span>
My guests chill out with Szirtes' whiskey<\/span>
 <\/span>
George gatecrashes late with his Jamesons<\/span>
– but we know a triple distilled when we meet one<\/span>
 <\/span>
there's no other way<\/span>
 <\/span>
there never was.<\/span>
 <\/span>

* Gwilym Williams is a regular IS&T contributor<\/span>
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