he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...

he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…

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 ...

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...

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

I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch