#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...
The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...
I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...
The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
the sch oolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…
like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth
I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot
I have been painting these last tw… it’s not much, you’re correct, but in this tournament great dream… history removes her dress and beco… and I have awakened in the morning