#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
#1978 #Women
she undressed in front of me keeping her pussy to the front while I lay in bed with a bottle of beer. where’d you get that wart on
I would, of course, prefer to be with th… instead of with a photograph of an old S… to the sound of the anvil chorus and leg… girls kicking high, showing everything b… but I might as well be dead right now
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands
I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...
another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen
#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
we had goldfish and they circled around… in the bowl on the table near the heavy… covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting us al… to be happy, told me, ‘be happy Henry!’
the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and
as the poems go into the thousands you realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sunlight, the traffic, the nights and the days of…
the telephone has not been kind of late, of late there have been more and more ca… from people who want to come over and ta… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely
you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb
a woman, a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have her, and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear that— I’d go mad. . .
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...
#1971 #PostOffice