#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…
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 laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
as the poems go into the thousands… realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sun… the traffic, the nights and the da…
now more and more all these people running around wearing the American Flag Shirt and it was more or less once assum… think but I’m not sure)
these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…
sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…
Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...
people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down