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This post includes affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of these links we will get a commission, which helps us maintain the site, at no extra cost to you.<\/em><\/p>\n The poem “the meek have inherited” comes from the Charles Bukowski poetry<\/a> book “Love is a Dog From Hell<\/a>.” “Love is a Dog From Hell” was published in 1977 by Black Sparrow Press.<\/p>\n if I suffer at this <\/p>\n I think of the men <\/p>\n some suicides are never The Charles Bukowski poem “the meek have inherited” appears in the collection “Love is a Dog From Hell<\/a>.” Click the image for more information.<\/p><\/div>\n The beginning of this poem shows off something Bukowski doesn’t get enough credit for: his humor. In fact, he is one of the funniest writers of his generation, but that often gets overlooked because he is considered a depressing, dark character.<\/p>\n And while that characterization didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, he managed to avoid the trap he felt one of his favorite writers, Louis-Ferdinand C\u00e9line, fell into: Losing his sense of humor. Compare his fantastic magnum opus “Journey to the End of the Night<\/a>” to anything else the man ever wrote and you’ll take Bukowski’s meaning.<\/p>\n Speaking of humor, Bukowski makes clear in “the meek have inherited” that he wasn’t a fan of the comedic stylings of the day, in the form of a Bob Hope or Lucille Ball. The conclusion, “Some suicides are never recorded,” contrasting the deadening, in his eyes, lives of those who are supposedly “making it,” according to what the mid-20th century American Dream would have one believe, with the lettuce-pickers, who are a nod to Bukowski’s labor days, but also act as a representative, alongside the factory workers, of those who can’t escape those years. Meanwhile, here he is a successful writer, having made it out, but still complaining about his own lot in life, now chained to a typewriter instead of a punch press.<\/p>\n In other words, no matter what dream you achieve there will always be a downside.<\/p>\n\n
the meek have inherited, by Charles Bukowski<\/h1>\n
\ntypewriter
\nthink how I’d feel
\namong the lettuce-
\npickers of Salinas?<\/p>\n
\nI’ve known in
\nfactories
\nwith no way to
\nget out –
\nchoking while living
\nchoking while laughing
\nat Bob Hope or Lucille
\nBall while
\n2 or 3 children beat
\ntennis balls against
\nthe walls.<\/p>\n
\nrecorded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Charles](\"https:\/\/bukowskiquotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/5a7b619009a0f798c8d95110.L-198x300.jpg\" "\\"Charles")
<\/a>More Poems From “Love is a Dog From Hell”<\/span><\/h3>\n