This is Episode 61 of Poems for the Speed of Life. Today's poem is "Bluebird" by Charles Bukowski.

Welcome to today’s short episode of Poems for the Speed of Life, a daily podcast that brings you one poem each weekday morning, and tries to bring you some of its power too. As with today’s poem and all the others, you are free to ignore introduction. If the poem says something specific or different to you, go with that, wherever it goes.

Wherever you are in the world, hopefully this podcast each weekday morning helps to give you some slight, subtle, but powerful shift of perspective.

Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet who died in 1994 at the age of 73. His work is notable for its rawness, even crudeness. In his portrayal of the suffering of ordinary working class people — and as much as anything the need to console suffering through pleasures of the senses, through alcohol or drugs or sex — he leaves nothing out. This poem “Bluebird” is a sensitive portrayal of how sensitivity itself — feeling, emotion, tears — is so routinely, and maybe so damagingly, covered up.

You can read the poem here.

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