{"id":1238,"date":"2015-03-09T15:50:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavorare.net.br\/2015\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2015-03-09T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:52:21","slug":"a-beautiful-animated-adaptation-of-bukowskis-poem-bluebird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavorare.net.br\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Animated Adaptation of Bukowski\u2019s Poem \u201cBluebird\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Bukowski\u2019s poem \u201cThe Bluebird,\u201d originally published in his 1992 anthology The Last Night of the Earth Poems (public library), is a quietly profound meditation on an all too familiar facet of the human condition \u2014 our compulsion to conceal and stifle our most tender and vulnerable selves underneath tough, controlled, meticulously architected exteriors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Leia Mais \u2192 --><\/p>\n<p>This mesmerizingly beautiful animated adaptation of the poem by Cambridge School of Art student Monika Umba is the perfect piece of visual whimsy to bring to life Bukowski\u2019s magic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lavorare.net.br\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bukowisk_blue_bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lavorare.net.br\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bukowisk_blue_bird.jpg\" alt=\"bukowisk_blue_bird\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavorare.net.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bukowisk_blue_bird.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lavorare.net.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bukowisk_blue_bird-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lavorare.net.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bukowisk_blue_bird-700x438.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>    there\u2019s a bluebird in my heart that<br \/>\n    wants to get out<br \/>\n    but I\u2019m too tough for him,<br \/>\n    I say, stay in there, I\u2019m not going<br \/>\n    to let anybody see<br \/>\n    you.<br \/>\n    there\u2019s a bluebird in my heart that<br \/>\n    wants to get out<br \/>\n    but I pour whiskey on him and inhale<br \/>\n    cigarette smoke<br \/>\n    and the whores and the bartenders<br \/>\n    and the grocery clerks<br \/>\n    never know that<br \/>\n    he\u2019s<br \/>\n    in there.<\/p>\n<p>    there\u2019s a bluebird in my heart that<br \/>\n    wants to get out<br \/>\n    but I\u2019m too tough for him,<br \/>\n    I say,<br \/>\n    stay down, do you want to mess<br \/>\n    me up?<br \/>\n    you want to screw up the<br \/>\n    works?<br \/>\n    you want to blow my book sales in<br \/>\n    Europe?<br \/>\n    there\u2019s a bluebird in my heart that<br \/>\n    wants to get out<br \/>\n    but I\u2019m too clever, I only let him out<br \/>\n    at night sometimes<br \/>\n    when everybody\u2019s asleep.<br \/>\n    I say, I know that you\u2019re there,<br \/>\n    so don\u2019t be<br \/>\n    sad.<br \/>\n    then I put him back,<br \/>\n    but he\u2019s singing a little<br \/>\n    in there, I haven\u2019t quite let him<br \/>\n    die<br \/>\n    and we sleep together like<br \/>\n    that<br \/>\n    with our<br \/>\n    secret pact<br \/>\n    and it\u2019s nice enough to<br \/>\n    make a man<br \/>\n    weep, but I don\u2019t<br \/>\n    weep, do<br \/>\n    you?<\/p>\n<p>Leia mais <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2012\/01\/13\/bukowski-blue-bird-animated\/?utm_content=buffer51748&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">brainpickings.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Bukowski\u2019s poem \u201cThe Bluebird,\u201d originally published in his 1992 anthology The Last Night of the Earth Poems (public library), is a quietly profound meditation on an all too familiar facet of the human condition \u2014 our compulsion to conceal and stifle our most 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