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as the poems go as the poems go into the thousands you realize that you've created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sunlight, the traffic, the nights and the days of the years, the faces. leaving this will be easier than living it. typing one more line now as a man plays a piano through the radio, the best writers have said very little and the worst, far too much. charles bukowski

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• buk buk zisk boom buk! - this issue of the hold is in memory of charles bukowski...1920/1994~~wavin partee pantees • An_Important_Announcement_to_Driveway_Users: we'll get started right away since this is an 'issue'.... welc0me special guest s.a. griffin to the hold's "in memory of charles bukowski" issue and when I visited bukowski at green hills last march, he may have been the only buk twin I recognized. don't miss this page! • it's birthday time for hold contributor Sarah T Punk and it's official: now everyone knows she's still a virgin - yea right ok i believe ya we all believe ya finalists in ballroom dancing competition believe you office product salesmen too... ok chesspiece face - get well soon!! oops, I mean: haPpY b-day gurl!::pOp a cherry::!~ • welcome to the hold - Nco - philipe nicolini enjoys writing about his rural upbringing in california's san joaquin valley. yep yep, everything's kewl in california and at the hold...so take yer shoes, shirt, and pants off and welcome Nco! • our contributor behind bars is back with a contribution. check out dickens' journal. oK just read it and leap into the-hold.com!  - --bukowski and virgins on the loose ---night dave!  XO's cait click photo for larger view "Pontiffs" Bukowski & The Pope by Haze McElhenny Limited Edition Prints (10) • click HERE for info / order • also available cafepress items contributor commemoratives to charles bukowski • buk book reviews   -w/ Michael Basinski • s.a. griffin • bill beaver • dancing bear • j.n. foster • haze • Michael McNeilley • debra dee stephens • r.l. stephenson • rebecca wilson • cait collins • Green Hills Memorial Park and other   special links Thunder Sandwich Broadside Edition is now online...check it out! Erosha edited by Donna Hill / Elaine Thomas is now online! send your submissions for the new erotic journal. Subject matter should be sensual, sensuous, erotic, provocative, and original. If you are interested in submitting poetry or art, click here for more details or for more information, email mish65@paralynx.com INTERVIEWS in celebration of the holds' upcoming 50th issue (November 2001), founder and maharajeee dave dembinski, co-editor Jay Miner and I have teamed together to INTERVIEW all of the contributors of the hold. this issue begins the start of the contributor interviews which proves to be not only interesting, intriguing but also I hafta say...these people are wet noodles (luv) ..ha! anyways, by November, I will have assembled all of the issues of the hold (1 - 50) on cd, including these interviews, which will be distributed to all of the contributors. *Dave, Jay and myself will receive interview questions submitted by the contributors of the hold. no dead animal questions, you'se! • smell ME at themestream travel through my world of general/digital photography not of the norm - nope, not me - heh COMING NEXT MONTH April's Fool Michael Basinski Assistant Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo offers us complete reviews of the poetry books of not only some of our contributors, but ezines and other books available online and in your local bookstore. Michael's poems, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. send your book to Michael for review! ADD-ALL Search, compare, and save at 40 bookstores, 20,000 dealers, and millions of books. Looking for hard to find, used or out of print books? Why waste your time going from site to site? You can search all of them with just one click. If they have it, AddALL will find it. click here! • bukstuff • elaine thomas - Photography and Digital Art • Erosha - a literary journal of the erotic • Thunder Sandwich - Broadside Edition • smell ME at themestream (if you've updated your website....email me and I'll make a 'ta do' about it - even roll out a red carpet full of fleas...nah, fuck the fleas, make that a joint!)