#1993 #AmericanWriters #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind
Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply
if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;
So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
The jew bent over and died. 99 machine guns were shipped to France. somebody w… while I inspected the propeller of an old monoplane
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…
the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans
This will refer to the letter addressed to you dated August 17, 1969, proposing your suspension without pay for three days or other disciplinary action, based on Charge No. 1 specified ...
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…