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>> On Christmas Day, 1990, Charles Bukowski received a Macintosh IIsi computer and a laser printer from his wife, Linda. The computer utilized the 6.0.7 operating system and was installed with the MacWrite II word processing program

Bukowski was born in 1920. Lived to be 73 years old.

So, the article is true, he used a word processor for the last few years of his life. Those poems, with a few exceptions, were not the good ones.

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However worse those poems were, they were made worser Bukowski poems by posthumous editing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski#Poetry_edit...

I was under the impression that much of his work was not "the good ones." He was popular among the fringe, mostly because it was "cool" to be a part of the non-conformist subculture. I read some of his stuff in the 1970's and it never grabbed me.

It's cool though that he adapted to computers. Some more modern authors still won't touch them.

https://mashable.com/archive/modern-writers-technology

>> He was popular among the fringe, mostly because it was "cool" to be a part of the non-conformist subculture

He was popular among me, because when I worked in a factory doing manual labor in the 90's, his poems described the life I was living.

It was neither fringe, nor "cool", nor non-comformist, nor part of a subculture.

He was a good writer who wrote about what I was going through.

Burroughs was just fucking crazy. I liked his writing too. Not the cut-up stuff.

Exterminator!

Burroughs also wrote a lovely book on cats he met.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Inside

I always liked that one. Naked Lunch grew on me, but was a bit tough when I read it for the first time. I was 13 back then.

I was a young postal worker, temporarily flunked out of university, when I first read Bukowski. The Post Office of course. Aside from some postal technicalities it was less reflective of day to day in the postal world than Star Wars or Mission Impossible. I loved it and was hooked on his writing for life anyway.

bukowski wrote over 5,000 poems. he was bound to have some good ones and plenty of bad ones. also had a couple o' good novel/a hits.

"Ham on Rye" resonated with me as an adolescent. Interestingly the German title is "Das Schlimmste kommt noch", meaning "The worst is yet to come". I also liked "Post Office".

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