#1977 #AmericanWriters #LoveIsADogFromHell
the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...
we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…
Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...
The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…
the virus holds the concepts give way like rotten shoelaces toothache and bacon dance on the lawn
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
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.
he was 65, his wife was 66, had Alzheimer’s disease. he had cancer of the mouth. there were