the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

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

The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...

it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?

Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...

got into my BMW and drove down to… pick up my American Express Gold… told the girl at the desk what I wanted. you’re Mr. Chinaski,” she

the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…

and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps

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

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...

in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar