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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Poetry

takes
lot of
 
desperation
 
dissatisfaction
 
and
disillusion
 
to
write
 
a
few
good
poems.
 
it’s not
for
everybody
 
either to
 
write
it
 
or even to
 
read
it.

#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

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Post Office. Chapter II: 14

Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...
my old man

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
Post Office. Chapter II: 7

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...
Women: 10

I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...
A Pleasant Afternoon in Bed

red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
Post Office. Chapter III: 1

I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...
Post Office. Chapter IV: 17

The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
The Curtains are Waving and People Walk Through the Afternoon Here and in Berlin and in New York City and in Mexico

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
I am eaten by butterflies

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
2 Flies

The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry
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Ham on Rye: 50

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...
We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain

call it the greenhouse effect or w… but it just doesn’t rain like it u… I particularly remember the rains… depression era. there wasn’t any money but there w…
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hug the dark

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
Women: 14

We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...
the shit shits

yes, it’s dark in here. can’t open the door. can’t open the jam lid. can’t find a pair of socks that ma… was born in Andernach in 1920 and…



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