Love at the Bottom of the Litter Box: Bukowski, Cats, and Me (Raw Underground Poetry Book 2)
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Love at the Bottom of the Litter Box: Bukowski, Cats, and Me (Raw Underground Poetry Book 2)
With Love at the Bottom of the Litter Box, Jackson Dean Chase delivers a stunning poetry chapbook that expresses the sweet pain and subtle humor of life on the edge. The 25 poems are inspired by (and sometimes about) the late, great poet, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Cats are featured as observers or the star of every poem, with roles ranging from the comic to the tragic. Topics cover the creative struggle, love, madness, poverty, depression, grief, loss, and death.
Want more? Be sure to check out Bukowski's Ghost: Poems for Old Souls in New Bodies, Book 1 in Jackson's Raw Underground Poetry series.
SAMPLE POEMS:
"YOU HAD ME AT "MEOW"
You had me at "meow," my friend.
You had me with three sleepy blinks,
with the tender flick of your tail,
the purr in your throat.
You had me with all these things:
treasured moments
curling in my lap.
"MOVING DAY"
As the cat purrs in my lap,
as Mozart pours from my speakers,
I drink this wine
and write these words,
feeling the first relief I've known in days.
The heaviness leaves me,
the hurt you caused becoming less
as you move from my present into my past...
never to return.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
It should come as no surprise when I say my best friends are cats. They are me, and I am them. We both love our routines and hate anything that disturbs them. We do what we want, when we want. We're happy being alone, but happy to be together when it suits us. We're loyal. We love deeply, trust deeply, and when that love and trust is broken, we slink away to lick our wounds.
We'll never fit in, even when we try. Especially when we try. And so we stop trying to fit in and start trying to be ourselves.
Because we can be nothing else.
Be sure to check out Jackson Dean Chase's epic, "Bukowski's Ghost," winner of the Best Poetry Collection of 2016.
