Mockingbird Wish Me Luck by Charles Bukowski Фрагмент автобиографической антивоенной поэмы «ww2» в сборнике «Mockingbird Wish Me Luck» (1972): Очень необычная ритмическая структура оригинала с пропусками вместо всех грамматических знаков и «разговорной» лексикой — u вместо you, yr — вместо you are и пр.: (...) you only begin to
miss the simple life after it is taken away from u after u go
into a hospital and u are on a bed maybe to die or go back
or in a jail never knowing when or if you’ll get out
that’s when you think that’s when the sunshine looks good
that’s when just walking down to the corner to buy a paper
is something like beethoven’s 9th [английский] Charles Bukowski/Чарльз Буковски - Собрание книг (обновлено 04.03.2020)[FB2, EPUB, DOC, PDF, MOBI, CBR] [1969-2017, ENG] i smiled and poured another one i sat upon a park bench watching traffic go by
and then it came a long caravan of trucks
filled with good young soldiers who only wanted to live
and i was young and