#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into
half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town
“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
My German doctor walked up. The one who had given me the blood tests. “Congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand, "it’s a girl. 9 pounds, 3 ounces.” “The mother will be all right. She ...
I still get letters in the mail, m… men in tiny rooms with factory job… living with whores or no woman at… booze and madness. Most of their letters are on lined…
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 ...
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)
When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...
yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles
the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,
It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...
the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed and I could hear the crickets and there was a cat fight outside and I could feel my soul dropping…
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely