Poeticous Logo
es
English Español Français Italiano
Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

a good one

I get too many
phone calls.
they seek the
creature out.
they shouldn’t.
 
I never phoned
Knut Hamsun or
Ernie or
Celine.
 
I never phoned
Salinger
I never phoned
Neruda.
 
tonight I got
a call:
 
“hello. you
Charles Bukowski?”
 
“yes.”
 
“well, I got a
house.”
 
“yes?”
 
“a bordello.”
 
“I understand.”
 
“I’ve read your
books. I’ve got a
houseboat in
Sausalito.”
 
“all right.”
“I want to give you
my phone number. you
ever come to San Francisco
I’ll buy you a drink.”
 
“o.k. give me the
number.”
 
I took it down.
 
“we run a class joint. we’re
after lawyers and state senators,
upper class citizens, muggers,
pimps, the like.”
 
“I’ll phone you when I
get up there.”
 
“lots of the girls
read your books. they
love you.”
 
“yeah?”
“yeah.”
 
we said goodbye.
 
I liked that
phone call.

#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell

¿Disfrutate esta lectura? ¡invítanos a un café!.
Tu ayuda nos permite existir.
Otras obras de Charles Bukowski...
Love & Fame & Death

it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark
What Can We Do?

at their best, there is gentleness… some understanding and, at times,… courage but all in all it is a mass, a glo… have too much.
 1
 3
The House

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,
an unkind poem

they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
 1
society should realize...

you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,
Women: 43

“Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my daughter. She’s 6 years I had a 6-pack of beer. Tammie put it in the refrigerator and came out with two bottles. “My daughter mustn’t see anything....
Post Office. Chapter VI: 3

But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...
in the center of the action

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
moaning and groaning

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.
this poet

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...
peace

near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their
a lovely couple

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed
the mockingbird

the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…
 2
commerce

used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.
The Beast

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:



Arriba