Poem for My 41st Birthday (After Bukowski)

Shockingly clean for a buckowski tribute.

A lot to digest in this one. I do like the idea of 'atheist seclusion' - the idea of a loneliness due to a lack of God, appeals to my personal aesthetic of the universe.

I would consider a stanza break after "What it's like"

 The last stanza is pretty good. I like the use of vacancy which alludes to a seedy hotel setting as well

• stephan