#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...
live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.
“she shoots up in the neck,” she t… me. I told her to stick it into my ass and she tried and said, “oh oh… and I said, “what the hell’s the m… she said, “nothing, this is New Y…
I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her
one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
“...I’ve seen people in front of their typewriters in such a bind that it would blow their intestine… right out of their assholes if the… were trying to shit.”
you may not believe it but there are people who go through life with very little friction or
There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…