#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live,
the men phone and ask me that. are you really Charles Bukowski the writer? they ask. I’m a sometimes writer, I say, most often I don’t do anything.
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
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
sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;
Back at Chelsey High it was the same. One group of seniors had graduated but they were replaced by another group of seniors with sports cars and expensive clothes. I was never confronte...
I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...
he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world
The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...
naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves
I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...
The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...