then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.

At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb

if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…

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

Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...

what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

Lydia returned and found a nice apartment in the Burbank area. She seemed to care a lot more for me than before we parted. “My husband had this big cock and that’s all he had. He had no...

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...

there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same

my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful