So i had to read two peotry books for advanced literature and i read Jorge Luis Borges, which are your classic cosmoplolitian poetry which is always nice but rather boring, then i read a book by Charles Bukowski called The last Night of the Earth poems, which was so funny, it is basically a literary genre called dirty realism (google it if you get a chance) overall i enjoyed reading it and want to sort of get other people started on it, so enjoy!
Here is a sample
warning: bad language by the way!
8 count
from my bed
I watch
3 birds
on a telephone
wire.
one flies
off.
then
another.
one is left,
then
it too
is gone.
my typewriter is
tombstone
still.
and I am
reduced to bird
watching.
just thought I'd
let you
know,
f*cker.
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