cows in art class
by Charles Bukowski
- good weather
- is like
- good women-
- it doesn't always happen
- and when it does
- it doesn't
- always last.
- man is
- more stable:
- if he's bad
- there's more chance
- he'll stay that way,
- or if he's good
- he might hang
- on,
- but a woman
- is changed
- by
- children
- age
- diet
- conversation
- sex
- the moon
- the absence or
- presence of sun
- or good times.
- a woman must be nursed
- into subsistence
- by love
- where a man can become
- stronger
- by being hated.
- I am drinking tonight in Spangler's Bar
- and I remember the cows
- I once painted in Art class
- and they looked good
- they looked better than anything
- in here. I am drinking in Spangler's Bar
- wondering which to love and which
- to hate, but the rules are gone:
- I love and hate only
- myself-
- they stand outside me
- like an orange dropped from the table
- and rolling away; it's what I've got to
- decide:
- kill myself or
- love myself?
- which is the treason?
- where's the information
- coming from?
- books...like broken glass:
- I wouldn't wipe my ass with 'em
- yet, it's getting
- darker, see?
- (we drink here and speak to
- each other and
- seem knowing.)
- buy the cow with the biggest
- tits
- buy the cow with the biggest
- rump.