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To Charles Bukowski
by C.E. Chaffin
Your shadow follows me like an oil smear on asphalt.
I carry your shrunken head in a paper bag. No one mistakes it for wine.
The factory label reads: "Do not cut threads between lips."
You drooled forty-five books before Daddy Death decked you.
Still, precautions must be taken because you took democracy too far.
Now anyone with a spray can thinks he's a poet — just look at our streets.
C.E. Chaffin is a SoCal native and attended UCLA. His poetry collection, Elementary, is available through Amazon.Com. He's been widely published on the web and in print.
