#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
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...
It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...
in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
majestic, majic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—
monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…
Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...
Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...