#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
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...
at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather
I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...
I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy
dying has its rough edge. no escaping now. the warden has his eye on me. his bad eye. I’m doing hard time now.
Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...
he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines
call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh