#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
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…
I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...
Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
hey, said my friend, I want you to… Hangdog Harry, he reminds me of y… and I said, all right, and we went… this cheap hotel. old men sitting around watching
we had goldfish and they circled a… in the bowl on the table near the… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He…
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered
I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...
I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...
John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;