WHEN HUGO WOLF WENT MAD --- BUKOWSKI

hugo wolf went mad while eating an onion

and writing his 235rd song; it was rainy

april and the worms came out of the ground

humming tannhäuser, and he spilled his milk

with his ink, and his blood fell out to the walls

and he howled and he roared and he screamed, and

down-

stairs his landlady said, i knew it, that rotton son

of a
 





















bitch has dummied up his brain, he's jacked-off

his last piece

of music and now i'll never get the rent and some-

day he'll be fam-

ous and they'll bury him in the rain, but right now

i wish he'd shut

up that god damned screaming--for my money he's

a silly pansy jackass

and when they move him out of here, i hope they

move in a good solid fish-

erman

or a hangman

or a seller of

biblical tracts.