#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do
They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly
I phoned Joyce. “How’s it working with Purple Sti… “What did he do when you told him… “We were sitting across from each… “What happened?”
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street
Two nights later I went over to Tammie’s place on Rustic Court. I knocked. The lights weren’t on. It seemed empty. I looked in her mailbox. There were letters in there. I wrote a note, ...
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
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.
O lord, he said, Japanese women, real women, they have not forgotte… bowing and smiling closing the wounds men have made; but American women will kill you l…
this kid used to teach at Kansas… then they moved him out he went to a bean factory then he and his wife moved to the… she got a job and worked while