"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"...
&&&so on
the whole poem is here:
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/4508/
2007-06-29 19:31:24 · 3 answers · asked by plane crash in c 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Ok, i love this poem and bukowski!!! My thought on this poem is that in life people are gonna be to ways good and bad. Charles, is a man who has a really pesimestic outlook on life and the people who inhabit it. So Obvolisly he has been ****** over so many times that thasts his view about eveyone. There his enemy.
2007-06-29 20:22:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The genius of the crowd is that they can magnify the murderous hateful tendencies of the average man.
I think that is the basic essence of what Bukowski was getting at here.
2007-06-30 04:52:57 · answer #2 · answered by Todd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
plain dumb stuff humans do always often appear genius.
2007-06-29 21:53:08 · answer #3 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋