#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand
the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the
The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then
Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm
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...
I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...
they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
the feelings I get driving past the railroad yard never on purpose but on my way to… are the feelings other men have fo… see the tracks and all the boxcars
It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...