he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...

I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…

I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with

over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,

There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...

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

they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

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

a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong