she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

she wore a platinum blond wig and her face was rouged and powder… and she put the lipstick on making a huge painted mouth and her neck was wrinkled

On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,

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.

we tried to hide it in the house s… neighbors wouldn’t see. was difficult, sometimes we both h… be gone at once and when we return… there would be excreta and urine a…

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.