#Americans #XXCentury #1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...
But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...
bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going
it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark
god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski?
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
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...
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
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then
this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time