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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

And the Moon and the Stars and the World

Long walks at night—
that’s what good for the soul:
peeking into windows
watching tired housewives
trying to fight off
their beer—maddened husbands.

#Americans #XXCentury

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#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame

beagle

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one for the old boy

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#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

No Charge

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands

song

Julio came by with his guitar and sang h… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs and als… published books of little drawings and poems.

#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

The Intellectual

she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,

#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame

beds, toilets, you and me—

think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land

#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell

The State of World Affairs From a 3rd Floor Window

I am watching a girl dressed in a light green sweater, blue shorts, long b… there is a necklace of some sort but her breasts are small, poor thing, and she watches her nails

#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands

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Women: 93

The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...

#1978 #Women

this then—

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt

#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell

Decline

naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for a

Women: 1

I was 50 years old and hadn’t been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at t...

#1978 #Women

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doom and siesta time

my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits

#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell

Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission

he got knifed in broad daylight, came up… holding his hands over his gut, dripping… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their place… he made it to the Mission doorway, colla…

#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

Ham on Rye: 50

Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...

#1982 #HamOnRye




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