Buk (as in: puke) <br /> <br />Part I: Il Infierno <br /> <br />Buk <br />sweating in shorts <br />and no shirt <br />drunk <br />in August <br />in an apartment <br />with no a.c. <br />on Western Avenue <br /> <br />Buk <br />rubbing whiskers <br />& beer gut <br />with one hand <br />while he types <br />and drinks <br />and jerks off <br />with the other. <br /> <br />Buk <br />sprawling <br />in stained, <br />rumpled, <br />stinking, <br />cots, <br />brawling in <br />downtown <br />bars, <br />delivering <br />mail <br />hungover <br />in crushing sun <br />in driving rain, <br />blatting out beer farts, <br />cornered in <br /> bleak hot early <br />morning <br />rented rooms. <br /> <br />Buk <br />angry drunk <br />yelling <br />at <br />angry drunk yelling <br />whores. <br />Buk <br />sweltering, <br />drinking, <br />puking, <br />writing. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Part II: Il Paradiso <br /> <br />Buk <br />blown <br />by nubile <br />Dutch tourists <br />aroused <br />by his beautiful <br />ugliness. <br /> <br />Malibu movie stars <br />dropping by <br />Buk <br />to borrow <br />a smidgen <br />of raunch. <br /> <br />Buk <br />on his deathbed <br />in San Pedro <br />haunted <br />by <br />hallucinations: <br /> <br /> Buk <br />his suppurating face <br />seething, <br />volcanic, <br />mocked or ignored <br />at Fairfax High. <br /> <br />Buk <br />whose Teutonic father <br />beat him <br />like a drum, <br />cashing <br />annual royalties <br />by the hundreds <br />of thousands <br />of Deutschmarks.. <br /> <br />Buk <br />straining <br /> to wake <br />the dead <br />no matter <br />how many <br />or <br />how loud <br />the demons <br />in his head.<br /><br />Percy Dovetonsils<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/buk-as-in-puke/
