Over-analyzing

When Charles said "..Love breaks my bones, and I laugh.."

Some might interpret that as "Sure, love is so beautiful that it won't hurt, and you won't mind if it broke your bones"

But from my experience, I think he meant "..Love breaks my bones, and I laugh, because broken bones are nothing compared to what love can do to a person."



Poetry by zana
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Written on 2014-08-06 at 21:44

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night soul woman The PoetBay support member heart!
Thank you for sharing your interpretation and for giving me the time to reflect upon those words from Charles Bukowski's poem: 'Fingernails; Nostrils; Shoelaces'.

When I read the poem I felt that the last line: Love breaks my bones, and I laugh. Told me that Love "breaks through into blossom" without even trying just by being Love love breaks the skeleton of reality we create in our heads because in his poem he recognizes that:

"I walked miles through the city and recognized
nothing as a giant claw ate at my
stomach while the inside of my head felt
airy as if I was about to go
mad. "

He is so focused on his inner pain, anxiety, hungry for something and the thoughts in his head do not give him any nourishment and that is why he cannot feel the beauty he is surrounded by But just a glimpse of what he recognizes as untainted love is enough to make everything bad disappear and then everything else he experienced becomes an illusion and helps him regain his sanity in a thoughtless reality. I might be wrong but this is what I thought:) Once again thank you for sharing!
2014-08-09



I like your interpretation of the quote, because I believe it's true.
~Ashe
2014-08-07



love once named it
follows its universal and
cultural pattern
2014-08-06