I happened across this meme on my hard drive just the other day. I don’t know who made it (though I will cheerfully give credit here if the individual steps forward). [UPDATE — the creator is none other than Brian Whitmore. 🙂 ]
That is, of course, Charles Bukowski wearing a t-shirt with the face of the late, wonderful Matthias Kruger.
Matthias founded Newington Blue Press in Germany. It was a platform that gave so many independent creators an opportunity to see their work featured in beautifully rendered chapbooks devoted to Bukowski. (I was one of them.)
Matthias is known to have had an excellent sense of humor. I think the meme below would have made him smile.
My BritBud Jaine asked me that after snapping this photo of a poet’s bust in her local park. She’s evidently suggesting that this is the impression that I leave with others? (Those English classes are wisenheimers, I tell ya.)
Anyway, the poet in question is Honorat de Bueil de Racan. (Don’t ask me to pronounce that.) The bust is located at the Jardin des Prebendes park in France. (My buddy lives near there now.)
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