#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
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 ...
sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,
this guy he’s got a crazy eye and he’s brown a dark brown from the sun the Hollywood and Western sun
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...
there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see
he lives in a house with a swimmin… and says the job is killing him. he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem t… get rid of
Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose
Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...
no way back to Barcelona. the green soldiers have invaded th… madmen rule Spain and during a heat wave in 1952 I b… no way back to the Rock of Gibral…
there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
