Dear Charles Bukowski,
I read your poem "Dinosauria,We" and it really caught my attention since the start. In the start it says “As Mrs. Death laughs, As the elevators break, As political landscapes dissolve, As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree”. Why did you put these examples together, why did you choose these examples? Were you trying to show how the world is cruel or was to show how the beginning of the end. Also I wanted to ask you why did you choose to say born like this instead of anything else, for example you could have said that we caused that instead of us being born into it. What do you mean when you said “The heart is blackened, the fingers reach for the throat”. What type of heart were you talking about, were you talking about the heart as in the organ or as the heart as in passion to accomplishing something. I like how you explain the present and then the future. In the future you predict a horrific end of the world which you don’t explain what happened. You do mention nuclear bombing and also diseases which could happen to be a zombie apocalypse. I like the comparison you made with Dante’s Inferno; this made me imagine how bad it would be living when this apocalypse is happening. I wanted to ask you what gave you the idea to write this poem the way it is. What gave you the idea of writing how the world is going to end? I ask this because I want to say that this poem was well written and the words had a great imagery it really made me imagine what you wrote. Thank you for writing this poem it was very interesting and I liked how you wrote it and your description t o the end of the world.
Sincerely,
Javier
