#Americans #XXCentury
I am a panther shut up and bellowi… cement walls, and I am angry at bl… evenings without ventilation and I am angry with you, and it wi… like a rose
they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”
Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...
Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:
the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives
There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...
Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker
I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift
went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…
I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. “are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?” “yes,” I tell them.
the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…
I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!
I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…
it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt
turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill