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Background, poem text, and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/09/charles-bukowski-reads-friendly-advice-to-a-lot-of-young-men/

Charles Bukowski reads his "Friendly Advice To A Lot Of Young Men"

"Purge" (ft. al4ska)

realizations

fair trade

I Am Not The Sea

fake friends

the first and last angry letter

A spoken word track of something I wrote.
Post here: http://lora-mathis.tumblr.com/post/94650972128/it-has-never-been-easy-when-i-was-sixteen-i-knew

Stay

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

Sabrina Benaim performing "Explaining My Depression To My Mother" over a piano and violin piece titled "Cold" by Jorge Méndez.

Sabrina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqu4ezLQEUA

Jorge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZeSYsU0Uk

Explaining My Depression To My Mother- Sabrina Benaim

Fuck A Male Ego (demo)

" Dance of the invisible dervishes" at Festival international de Carthage, Tunisia 2012

Dhafer Youssef with strings
Special guest Tunisian poet Sghaier Wled Ahmed
جواب الشرط - La République inconditionnelle 

Cantus Lamentus from Divine shadows Album

Video by Shiraz Fradi
Christian Ulbrich - sound engineer
Translated by Raja Chebbi


قصيدة جواب الشرط - الصغير ولاد أحمد وظافر يوسف

Cry Of The Wolf

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you? 

Bluebird-DJ Okawari/Charles Bukowski

1:18 am

Excerpt from a 2005 discussion at the Kelly Writers House, courtesy of PennSound. Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/14/adrienne-rich-on-love-loss-happiness-creativity/

Adrienne Rich on public vs. private happiness

Adam Guerra put some music to my poem.
I think it sounds sadder than ever.

My spoken word album is available for free here: hollowedboy.bandcamp.com

You Are An Illness I Barely Beat Redone

Sex With a Sad Girl

Baby voice singin' about adult emotions. 
Just trying to be cutesy~** <3 <3 <3
