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Comparative Literature

Michael Battram

“So you want to be
just like Bukowski, is that it?”
she asked me once.

“The jobs, the drinking,
up all night with music on and
a notebook in your lap, is that
what you’re trying to do?”

“Of course not, shit,” I snapped
at her. But looking back upon
those stupid years,
all that self-referential
chopped-up prose scrawled
drunken-handed on legal pads,

I think now maybe I wanted
to be someone, anyone,
but who I was; or maybe
I was just trying
to kill myself, just like
——at times, I bet he was——
Bukowski.

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