#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
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
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
But the next morning it was the same thi… “That’s all, Chinaski. Nothing for you… It went on for a week. I sat there each… Then Bobby Hansen, one of the older sub… “I don’t care. I’m not kissing his ass.…
#1971 #PostOffice
A couple of nights later Becker walked… my address or he located me through the… “I will do anything honest or otherwise,… calls. Becker sat in a chair as I poured the w…
#1982 #HamOnRye
old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
One night I was coming around the corne… It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed… “Moto, you motherfuck!” I said. “Hank!” he said. We shook hands.
In the morning I heard her walking arou… It was about 10:30 a.m. I was sick. I d… She shook me. “Listen, I want you to ge… “So what? I’ll screw her too.” “Yeah,” she laughed, “yeah.”
strange warmth, hot and cold females, I make good love, but love isn’t just sex. most females I’ve known are ambitious, and I like to lie around on large comfortable pillows at 3 o’cloc…
waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed I am so very sorry for
the ladies of summer will die like the r… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever
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 the
#1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
do not b other the beagle lying there away from grass and flowers and paths, dreaming dogdreams, or perhaps dreaming nothing, as men do awake; yes, leave him be, in that simple juxtap…
if you can’t stand the heat, he says, ge… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’m in t… oven.
we buy the scandal sheets at the superma… get into bed and eat pretzels and read a… the church bells ring and the dogs bark we turn on the tv and watch very bad mov… then she goes down and brings up ice cre…
the canaries were there, and the lemon t… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—