#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car
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
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...
But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…
there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone
schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat
I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…