Free The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles Bukowski

a poem, he says, history chops
                    YOU down.
    FUCK ALL MEANING! Bob suddenly screams.
    then, in softer voice:
            we ought to discard.
                we all agree that feeling is everything and
    we go out for coffee
    leaving three girls sitting
    there with their dresses hiked-up around their
                        HIPS.
     
 
    Monday, July 29th; Morning Session:
     
 
    I saw all FIVE OF THEM!!!
                around a desk
                      TOGETHER:
                        Hansen, Truport,
                        De Costro,
                        Starwort and
                        Phillip Maxwell.
    Phillip didn’t ARGUE didn’t say much
    and left before the meeting was OVER
                but explained he’d wait
    OUTSIDE for the free lunch. his books haven’t been
                GOING well.
    Starwort read his Man on a Streetcar Running Backwards
            from Bent Lily #8.
    I couldn’t really understand his
            READING
                but will have to see
    the work in print before I make a
            JUDGMENT.
                v    Maybe Allie Denby
    will send me a
    copy of the issue, tho, alas, I understand it is
    now a RARE ITEM
            going to $20 out of Fort Lauderdale.
    the past can only take place in the PRESENT, if you
    know what I mean, said
                    De Costro.
    we all
    nodded.
    Truport said he was afraid of being BROKE. he was
    lined up for one more session at the
                U. of K.
    but hadn’t heard much
    more. of course, he’d been moving
    around quite a bit, in TOUCH and
            OUT OF TOUCH:
    Paris, Cuba, the Congo, India, Moscow and Denver, Colorado.
    we spoke of The Cantos.
            Pound continually tries to find space
    AREAS, ARENAS OF CONTOUR for his extra-cerebral
    power-poetic
    uningrained…uncontrived soul-mind…like a…like a
    whip lashing against the sides of an old
                BARN.
    we want a COMPLETE EMERGENCE, said De Costro.
    nothing half nothing wilted
    we want the poetic Christ-thing walking out of
    the barn
    and Teaching—not from the TOP-down
    but through and through and
                THROUGH.
    god damn it to hell, said Starwort. suddenly.
    in taking my notes I could not fit it into
    the
        conversation.
     
 
    First Workshop session with R.H.:
    he seemed to say a lot that I didn’t understand but
    the others seemed to understand
    and the session went well.
    Bob looked well. I had a
            HANGOVER.
     
 
    Wednesday, July 31st; Morning Session (most of us there):
     
 
    there were again the old arguments about Vietnam,
    Cleaver and the Panthers, all of which, I am afraid, I
            no longer
    understand.
    I am AFRAID
        I am getting tired
            although the others appear very
    energetic.
    I need SECURITY, said Hansen. I need a perpetual FATHER
    and a GOOD JOB or my work is
                HINDERED.
    Allen read some of his early stuff. I understand some of it
    but FRANKLY, I think he tends to
            holler and OVERSTAGE.
    I left with a
    HEADACHE.
     
 
    Friday, August 2nd; Morning Session:
     
 
    Allen spoke of some of the poetry he had seen in
    the campus shithouses and said it was pretty
                        GOOD.
     
 
    then Wm. Burroughs was discussed
    his USE of timely and pertinent
    news material that RELATED…
            by clipping out words in the paper
    and pasting them in DIFFERENT ORDER
      A NEW ORDER
                was established
    and a neutralization of time and event
                WAS
                    established.
    THIS WAs imporTANT. YeS. I’ll sAY sO.
    we all admitted we often read Time and
                    Pravda.
    then Allen read
    AGAIN
            this time from UnpubliSHED
                        WoRk
    dIrEcTly FrOM the JOuRnals
          there were 250 people attending
    and he read LOUDLY and I had