shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

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

The jew bent over and died. 99 machine guns were shipped to France. somebody w… while I inspected the propeller of an old monoplane

My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power

It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...

knew you were a bad-ass,” he said. you sat in the back of Art class a… you never said anything. then I saw you in that brutal figh… with the guy with the dirty yellow

Two mornings later, at 4 am, somebody beat on the door. I let Tammie in. She sat down and I opened a couple of beers. “I’ve got bad breath, I have these two bad teeth. You can’t kiss me...

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into