What are your thoughts of this poem?

Question

the crunch
By Charles Bukowski

too much too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody.

laughter or
tears

haters
lovers

strangers with faces like
the backs of
thumb tacks

armies running through
streets of blood
waving winebottles
bayoneting and *******
virgins.

an old guy in a cheap room
with a photograph of M. Monroe.

there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.

people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.

I suppose they never will be.
I don't ask them to be.

but sometimes I think about
it.

the beads will swing
the clouds will cloud
and the killer will behead the child
like taking a bite out of an ice cream cone.

too much
too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody

more haters than lovers.

people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.

meanwhile I look at young girls
stems
flowers of chance.

there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
though of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no."

Answer 1

This is a drag

it can go on and on without end

Dissatisfaction to the modern society

a piece of grumble and hatred

it can be a wisdom

or even a social sickness in disguise

It is swinging on a balance

somehow between a challenge or an acceptance

Answer 2

OMG This shouts Ferlenghetti. An extraordinary poem! A fantastic 10!

Answer 3

I think if it was a little shorter it would have more of an impact but I liked it Good work

Answer 4

I thought it started out great but about half way through you lost me. Streamline it a bit and you got a winner.

Answer 5

It's Buk, not one of my favorites of his. but good nonetheless.



Almost everything he writes moves me, even though I haven't necessarily had the same experiences.

Answer 6

I'm good to people, and people are good to me.



I live in a good city, filled with good people.



Sure i had my hard times.

Answer 7

Not one of Chuck's best, but it is Chuck. Why censor it he'd be pissed?

Answer 8

honestly, its to long for a point that is small, and it sounds like a child wrote it!

Answer 9

boring and preachy i fell asleep in the middle.

Answer 10

sounds like you need a fuc*in drink

Answer 11

very unique

Answer 12

thoughts is its crap just like your question