rhyming poem:
by Charles Bukowski
- the goldfish sing all night with guitars,
- and the whores go down with the stars,
- the whores go down with the stars
- I'm sorry, sir, we close at 4:30,
- besides yr mother's neck is dirty,
- and the whores go down with the etc.,
- the whrs. go dn. with the etc.
- I'm sorry jack you can't come back,
- I've fallen in love with another sap,
- 3/4 Italian and 1/2 Jap,
- and the whores go
- the whores go
- etc.
from "All's Normal Here" - 1985
Ruddy Duck Press
(originally appeared in Wormwood Review 1963)