#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
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.
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head
Lydia returned and found a nice apartment in the Burbank area. She seemed to care a lot more for me than before we parted. “My husband had this big cock and that’s all he had. He had no...
listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...
To end up alone in a tomb of a room without cigarettes or wine— just a lightbulb
Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
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…