Genius

Charles Bukowski used to be a favorite of the nonconformists. Today almost everybody is conformed, and so it's not surprising that Bukowski's poems are not very popular anymore. Anyway, I still love this one, titled "I Met A Genius":

today

about 6 years old,

he sat beside me

and as the train 

ran down along the coast

we came to the ocean

and then he looked at me

and said,

it's not pretty. 

Charles Bukowski