#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…
it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown
saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse
people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished
she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
dumb, Jesus Christ, some people are so dumb you can hear them splashing around
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
Mindy stayed about a week. I introduced her to my friends. We went places. But nothing was resolved. I couldn’t climax. She didn’t seem to mind. It was strange. Around 10:45 PM one even...
she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...