#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
dame some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh
I got a letter in the mail. It was addressed from Hollywood. Dear Chinaski: I’ve just read almost all your books. I work as a typist in a place on Cherokee Ave. I’ve hung your picture i...
the men phone and ask me that. are you really Charles Bukowski the writer? they ask. I’m a sometimes writer, I say, most often I don’t do anything.
I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...
The boys on Dorsey station didn’t know my problems. I’d enter through the back way each night, hide my sweater in a tray and walk in to get my timecard: We had a game going, the black-w...
you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—
call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.
sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age
I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…
there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same