The Telephone
many women I have known haye
been very much connected to
the telephone.
they can talk virtually for
hours.
it is their manner of
measuring where they
are or are
not.
some women have major
problems with aging
and with
men.
on the telephone they
speak of
real and imaginad
injustice,
they let loose their
poison,
they justify their
beliefs and
positions.

my wife has been
speaking to one of her
gender
back cast.
the conversation
is now proceeding
into its second
hour.
if a psychiatrist or
a psychologist were listening
their notes would be
bulging with
referentes to
trenchant
instability and
gratuitous masturbation
of the
psyche.

but I am neither psychiatrist
nor psychologist.
I am just the poor son-of-
a-bitch who has to pay
the phone bill.

a misogynist who
writes these
poems.




Bukowski Charles.



to my blue bird at nights -