Bukowski sometimes reminds me of Ligotti.

[Murony_Pyre]

I just finished The Continual Condition and thought many of the poems could be considered anti-natalist, or at least bleakly pessimistic. I've transcribed one of them below; it probably isn't the best illustration. It is interesting to note how much more "poem-like" Bukowski's poetry is when he is articulating the darker side of things.

you've seen it on the barstool next to you---

it is not honorable to sit here
staring at these walls

the horses made for a wasteful
afternoon
and I sit here
waiting

the wine isn't
working

but it's a bad Saturday night
for others too.

then my hand moves,
fills another glass.

this war
after all
is fought finally
to be lost.

this time
like the other times
other nights
other cities

waiting on
death.