Open Letter

Dear Charles Bukowski,

In Your poem, Dinosauria We, I was able to connect openly to the topics you were expressing. The way you presented these topics seem very non-chalant but at the same time very blunt. Your poem created tesnsion in me, making me wonder will we ever go through the "this" that you talk about or are we already beginning to go forth about it. Or ever better have we already gone through it and are beginning a new chapter that could possiby be even worse. One thing that really stood at to me was when you wrote " As Mrs. Death laughs." Guessing that your intentions of this poem was for people to create their own "this", that line made me wonder what you could be talking about. Perhaps you were saying that death is such a natural thing occurring now, with all the killings and people dying of deadly diseases, that death gets a chance to laugh at the patheticness of our nation. We are making such topics like death, the main thing that we talk about, even though it shouldnt be that way.

As I continued to read on in the poem, i felt as though your poem was to bring awareness to what humankind is doing, and to also try to prevent it before it too late. I feel as though the things you talked about has already happen or is currently happening. For instance, " Into Hospitals, which are so expensive that its cheaper to die" in so many cases in the world people leave this world because of this reasoning. Expensive to make sure we stay healthy and get the medical care we need are way too high. And im glad you talked about this in your peom.

But from reading this peom, i realized i think about the same thing you write about. Maybe i should read more of your writings.