i out drank charles bukowski

i want to have sex
with her
but she's not here
today
and besides she's married
that wouldn't have stopped
charles bukowski
would it
but i have come to learn
that i am not charles bukowski
even though that one fellow
in that one copy shop
on that one day that i was making
one copy of one little book
i had assembled for one
friend
said that i wrote like charles bukowski
and i said who was that and of course
once i found out
i headed off to the B section
of poetry
and found out that this fellow
had slept with more hookers
and lived in more rooming houses
than i had
though i am not sure
he drank more
though i think he drank
till he dropped
and i have stopped drinking.
i out drank charles bukowski.