Bukowski claims that poetry comes from
Your guts – its rock and roll man:
Clutching a bottle of J&B with
A roll up in your hand
Its sex and semen splashed with
Venting passion & I’m with the band
Long black limbs encased in
Black denim, cowboy boots and your
Dick in your hand
Red roses & leather guitars and 60’s
Dead icons – fast fading stars to razor blades and groupies
Selling your soul like Robert Johnson to a cross roads demon
To feed your muses fix – all that effort to keep poetry’s kicks
Dr Jane Mainley Piddock: PhD English literature, Aberystwyth University, the Ghost Stories Of M R James I have been the recipient of a poetry mentoring award from Writing West Midlands & Nine Arches Press, for 2016-2017, by Poet Jane Commane, and am busy writing my book (Casting The Runes – The Letters of M. R. James) with unbounders press.