#Americans #XXCentury
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
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...
I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...
sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…
he sat naked and drunk in a room o… night, running the blade of the kn… under his fingernails, smiling, th… of all the letters he had received telling him that
you may not believe it but there are people who go through life with very little friction or
you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not
The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...
I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough
and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college
Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea… never could have imagined that I would write a scre… days together and
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,