The Genius of The Crowd

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The Genius of The Crowd

Post by tentimes » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:29 am

Not sure if anyone else here likes poetry, but it's an interest of mine, and I recently heard a poem that really... hit the spot ;)

It's by a guy that I never heard of before called Charles Bukowski... it sounds especially good when spoken and I have an mp3 of that if anyone is interested.



The Genius Of The Crowd

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art


Charles Bukowski
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Re: The Genius of The Crowd

Post by Gavlar » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:45 am

Ouch, thats pretty brutal. :lol:
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Re: The Genius of The Crowd

Post by tentimes » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:34 am

lol yeah - not the sort of thing to read if you were feeling a bit low,but wonderful observation.
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Re: The Genius of The Crowd

Post by Brennig » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:00 am

Jeebus, that's a cheery post to read first thing in the morning :)

Most of his stuff is fairly bleak and not really an uplifting read tho

http://plagiarist.com/poetry/poets/11/
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Re: The Genius of The Crowd

Post by Doradan » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:12 pm

So... to summarise....

Beware everyone...
...everyone is bad....
.....but not quite as bad as this poet :D
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Re: The Genius of The Crowd

Post by Elgarr » Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:45 am

I started to read this poem, but i seemed to have the voice of Baz Luhrmann in my head (bloke from "wear sunscream") But when it got to deep and angry i realised it changed to something else. Someone please tell me :)

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