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Charles Bukowski

Working Out

Van Gogh cut off his ear
gave it to a
prostitute
who flung it away in
extreme
disgust.
Van, whores don’t want
ears
they want
money.
I guess that’s why you were
such a great
painter: you
didn’t understand
much
else.

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a song with no end

when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b… I know what he meant I know what he wanted:
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Consummation of Grief

I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
 1
Now

I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
 1
Style

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or… To do a dull thing with style is p… To do a dangerous thing with style… Bullfighting can be an art
 3
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Rain

a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion
the great slob

I was always a natural slob I liked to lay upon the bed in undershirt (stained, of course) (and with cigarette holes)
Short Order

I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",
I Made a Mistake

I reached up into the top of the c… and took out a pair of blue pantie… and showed them to her and asked “are these yours?”
 2
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?
Luck

once we were young at this machine. . . drinking
Decline

naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…
 1
Out of the Arm of One Love...

out of the arm of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories
 1
finished?

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from
Confession

waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
 5
The Laughing Heart

your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.
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