#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes
he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
she reads to me from the New York… which I don’t buy, don’t know how they get in here, but it’s something about the Mafia one of the heads of the Mafia
After nine or ten hours people began getting sleepy and falling into their cases, catching themselves just in time. We were working the zoned mail. If a letter read zone 28 you stuck it...
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...
We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around
am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…