09-20-2015, 07:08 PM
bucks persona was a drunk down to earth man. somehow i struggle to see his lifestyle as a person or a poet blamed on anything else but booze. he was obviously an intelligent man but come on guys, he didn't actually give a fuck about most things, or should i say he gave way too much fuck about everything. that he went through bouts of sobriety; i'm sure he did but i always saw and heard him as someone who didn't need a fabricated persona. i never liked him as a poet for a long time mainly because i'd never read or heard him. he was one of those arty farty poets to me, now i think of him as one of my favourite poets. i often listen to his recording and live gigs in bars and clubs, all i see and here is a man who knew how to love and feel pain in a more genuine was than most prissy poets. i suppose he did have a persona but i think others had much more contrived ones. ginsberger being one of them ...i heard him a few times and it sounded like he was still sucking Orlovsky's cock