if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.

After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…

I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind

The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...

at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed