Yes, it is. It bothers me too. It is so unlike Buk, who AFAIK was not snobbish himself, and detested pretense.
Also, the ending about snails and manna is uncharacteristically obscure for Buk.
What I figure is that the poem's point is disgust with the political show of the president mouthing a state of the union speech. It's a not so good mind in a not so good body.
Maybe not his best poem, just one for the occasion. Take a good look at Bush giving a speech to see what Buk probably meant.
John
> it's a shame
> Charles Bukowski
>
> a great mind and a good body seldom go
> together.
> or a great body and a good
> mind.
> or a great body and a great
> mind.
>
> but worse, a not so good mind and a
> not so good body often go
> together.
>
> in fact, that's almost the entire
> populace.
> and all these
> reproducing more of
> themselves.
>
> is there any wonder why the world
> is where it's at
> now?
>
> just notice the creature sitting near you
> in a movie house
> or standing ahead of you in a
> supermarket line.
> or giving a State of the Union
> Address.
>
> that the gods have let us go on
> this long
> this badly.
>
> as the snail comes crawling home
> to manna.