#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
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
I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,
listen, man, don’t tell me about t… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscrip… we bake them burn them
self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where
majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?”
Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...
I was sitting with an anarchist from Beverly Hills, Ben Solvnag, who was writing my biography when I heard her footsteps on the court walk. I knew the sound—they were always fast and fr...
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.
she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…