Plain and simple, I love Bukowski.  I love poets who say things others do not or will not.  I love writers who cross the line--because they can.  This poem strikes me because in this hectic, fast-paced, immediate gratification world, if we do not pause--"walls will close in."   the area of pause by Charles Bukowski … Continue reading the area of pause–Poetry by Charles Bukowski in honor or NaMoWriMo