Watch: Animated Bukowski Poem “Beer”

BEER by Charles Bukowski from NERDO on Vimeo.

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It is a mix of typography and cartoon Bukowski acting out the dialogue.

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The animation is set to a reading of Bukowski’s poem “Beer.”

“Beer” is a reflection on drinking and relationships, two of the poet’s favorite topics. It can be found in his poetry collection “Love Is A Dog From Hell.” Read it below.

Beer

By Charles Bukowski

I don’t know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better.
I don’t know how much wine and whiskey
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women –
waiting for the phone to ring
waiting for the sound of footsteps,
and the phone never rings
until much later.
when my stomach is coming up
out of my mouth
they arrive as fresh as spring flowers:
“what the hell have you done to yourself?
it will be 3 days before you can fuck me!”

the female is durable
she lives seven and one half years longer
than the male, and she drinks very little beer
because she knows it’s bad for the
figure.

while we are going mad
they are out
dancing and laughing
with horny cowboys.

well, there’s beer
sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles
and when you pick one up
the bottles fall through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling grey wet ash
and stale beer,
or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m.
in the morning
making the only sound in your life.

beer
rivers and seas of beer
beer beer beer
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.

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