#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.
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)
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores
when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting
all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...
she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.
don’t undress my love you might find a mannequin: don’t undress the mannequin you might find my love.
a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos
the feelings I get driving past the railroad yard never on purpose but on my way to… are the feelings other men have fo… see the tracks and all the boxcars
A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...
He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...
Information has been received in this office indicating that you were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 12, 1969, on a drunk charge. In this connection, your atten...
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
Marina Louise, Fay named the child. So there it was, Marina Louise Chinaski. In the crib by the window. Looking up at the tree leafs and bright designs whirling on the ceiling. Then she...