All Discussions Tagged 'mycol' - Zoobird2024-03-29T09:17:24Zhttps://www.zoobird.com/group/poetryzoo/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=mycol&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBluebird, by Bukowskitag:www.zoobird.com,2010-10-15:2129360:Topic:300542010-10-15T23:25:32.830ZMichael Levinhttps://www.zoobird.com/profile/MichaelLevin
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The Irish love the spoken word...reciting poetry from memory is an admired skill...<br></br>
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I was at Finca Mycol (<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elephantjournal.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fliving-off-the-grid%2F&rct=j&q=off%20grid%20elephant%20journa&ei=aNW4TOqNIsGclge-o_WZDQ&usg=AFQjCNEhMyrupyCssKTArI4jukAqTR8ZjQ&sig2=p7REo0ldDjxNsys2aWh0xg&cad=rja">Living off theā¦</a>
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The Irish love the spoken word...reciting poetry from memory is an admired skill...<br/>
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I was at Finca Mycol (<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elephantjournal.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fliving-off-the-grid%2F&rct=j&q=off%20grid%20elephant%20journa&ei=aNW4TOqNIsGclge-o_WZDQ&usg=AFQjCNEhMyrupyCssKTArI4jukAqTR8ZjQ&sig2=p7REo0ldDjxNsys2aWh0xg&cad=rja">Living off the Grid</a>)<br/>
this week, sitting around the campfire one night. Guy, a WWOOFer, asked<br/>
me what it was like living in Ireland. I told him the Irish loved a<br/>
good poem. He smiled and recited "Bluebird", by Charles Bukowski.<br/>
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<br/> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bluebird</span><br/>
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There's a bluebird in my heart that<br/>
wants to get out<br/>
but I'm too tough for him,<br/>
I say, stay in there, I'm not going<br/>
to let anybody see<br/>
you.<br/>
<br/>
there's a bluebird in my heart that<br/>
wants to get out<br/>
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale<br/>
cigarette smoke<br/>
and the whores and the bartenders<br/>
and the grocery clerks<br/>
never know that<br/>
he's<br/>
in there.<br/>
<br/>
there's a bluebird in my heart that<br/>
wants to get out<br/>
but I'm too tough for him,<br/>
I say,<br/>
stay down, do you want to mess<br/>
me up?<br/>
you want to screw up the<br/>
works?<br/>
you want to blow my book sales in<br/>
Europe?<br/>
<br/>
there's a bluebird in my heart that<br/>
wants to get out<br/>
but I'm too clever, I only let him out<br/>
at night sometimes<br/>
when everybody's asleep.<br/>
I say, I know that you're there,<br/>
so don't be<br/>
sad.<br/>
then I put him back,<br/>
but he's singing a little<br/>
in there, I haven't quite let him<br/>
die<br/>
and we sleep together like<br/>
that<br/>
with our<br/>
secret pact<br/>
and it's nice enough to<br/>
make a man<br/>
weep, but I don't<br/>
weep, do<br/>
you?<br/>
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