Letter to Charles Bukowski

Dear Mr. Bukowski,

I read your poem "Dinosauria, We" and I was impressed by how you described what our societey will be or maybe already is. On the one site I could understand what you are talking about in the poem and that all those problems in the society are fatal. But on the other site I was kind of scared of what you wrote and I think you are exaggerating a bit with this apocalyptical foreseeing.

Do you really think that everything will get this bad that everything will be blown away? You said there will be the most beautiful silence. I associate this with some kind of total emptiness of life in that world then and I wonder how could that physically happen?

I mean, it is probably true that money will be useless, that trees will die and that the sea will be poisoned at some point, but that does not mean that everything will become extinct. And as you yourself said, the rich and the chosen won´t feel the consequences of the apocalypse, so how could there be the most beautiful silence, if some rich people still existed? That sounds a bit contradictory to me.

Also, as mentioned before, you said that money will be useless but at the same time the rich people will watch all the apocalypse from space platforms. So how should rich people be able to escape the chaos and go to space platforms if money is useless? Thats an incosistent point, too.

Father and Son

I think a relation between a father and son should be very close anyway in this stadium of education I assume the boy is in. But under such circumstances it must be even closer to go on and fight for surviving.

Obviously the boy lost his mother somewhen before the story starts. So the only natural parent is his father and of course he  is his the one where he gets his energy from to go on. The Father also lost everything what is worth living for exept for his son, so he made it his duty and his task to take care of the boy and to save a better future for him.

Despite those apocalyptic circumstances he is trying to live a life with ethical values and a normal education. He is trying to stick to habits so that the boy and he himself can better deal with the situation. Father and son are the "good guys" in this burnt world.

In my opinion the relation of father and son is changing in the way of the depth of conversations. First their conversations are just about food and reading books for the boy, but then the boy starts to ask his dad some questions, which are unusual for a boy to ask. Such as what his father would do if he died. I guess that gets their relation to another level because both of them know the whole dimension of their situation...