#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...
We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
the men phone and ask me that. are you really Charles Bukowski the writer? they ask. I’m a sometimes writer, I say, most often I don’t do anything.
Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...
I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
here I am in the ground my mouth open and
as the spirit wanes the form
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would
There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...
you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…
in the hospitals and jails it’s the worst in madhouses it’s the worst in penthouses
majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…