Charles Bukowski On The Tragedies Of Ordinary Life – “The Shoelace Poem”
In this Bukowski poem entitled, “The Shoelace Poem,” Bukowski invites the listener/reader to feel less alone in the insanity created by the simple, mundane string of ordinary life events. Sometimes it isn’t massive life tragedies that push someone over the edge. Sometimes it’s just one too many broken shoelaces. And we should give everyone the benefit of the doubt, assuming we have likely all broken that last shoelace.
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@AmericaFirst-44
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Wish I didn't hear this
@jacobmyrick1632
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Skip and writing a poem to summarize
@Lee-fi4vo
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
The audience is laughing because [Calif's] governor is often crazy — likely Reagan, the king of idiots who (1) made carrying loaded rifled illegal because the Black Panthers scared him, and (2) he closed most mental asylums in Calif.
@Lee-fi4vo
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
"Henry Chinasky" was a freakin' genius. Read ANTS.
@AnonymousAnonymous-v9p
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
00:48 I like the symbolism. The shoelace snaps and clogs the passage of time, the sand in an hourglass of a man’s life from passing. too bad, so sad for the man who wishes to repeat in the footsteps of the tried and true methods to which one aims to complete life. And we feel sort of cheated because of this futility. You guessed it!: FTGE and suicide.
@the_birthday_skeleton
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
I once loudly farted in the middle of the important corporate merger presentation & physically crumpled to the floor, mentally broke-down, the farting continuing each time a sob wracked my body and each time I gasped and choked
for air.
The odour of eggs and tuna pervaded the room entire.
fin
@mailman2332
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Ah! The Madhouse of Life…Charles get it
@Pahlko
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
This is probably the best poem ever written.
@2DaysNorth
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Strong man Bukowski 💯
@Alsatiagent
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
To paraphrase Bukowski: The flies are also angry. Why are they so angry? it's not my fault they are flies.
@poem
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
❤️🔥
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
❤️🔥
― Charles Bukowski 😎
@skingolem4456
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
I puke a little, when I read Bukowski. I'd like to think he would've liked that.
@bughead5615
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Why the fuck are those people laughing
@DonaldFranciszekTusk
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Imo it is too long, i think that almost everyone realise what he thinks around half of it.
@DrD0000M
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
I wear flip-flops.
@thevillagesunnyc2058
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
His novels are great.
@TheDimachaerus
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Always one of my favorites. Performed it many times.
@Steveirwin4477
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
I like this poem but I didn't get it could someone explain it to me thanks
@beatleme2
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
Take life to serious than one day you will snap?…so don't?
@aarondavid9377
December 23, 2025 at 8:12 am
This is the product of self absorption with to much time on your hands!
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