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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

you

you’re a beast, she said
your big white belly
and those hairy feet.
you never cut your nails
and you have fat hands
paws like a cat
your bright red nose
and the biggest balls
I’ve ever seen.
you shoot sperm like a
whale shoots water out of the
hole in its back.
 
beast beast beast,
she kissed me,
what do you want for
breakfast?

#Americans #XXCentury #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell

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#1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #ItCatchesMyHeartInItsHands

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#1971 #PostOffice

eat your heart out

I’ve come by, she says, to tell you that this is it. I’m not kidding, it’s over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom

#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

an almost made up poem

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#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell

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The Poetry Reading

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

imagination and reality

there are many single women in the world with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

#1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell

The Laughing Heart

your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submis… be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere.

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Startled Into Life Like Fire

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

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the lady has me temporarily off the bott… and now the pecker stands up better. however, things change overnight— instead of listening to Shostakovich and

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you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

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#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

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#1993 #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned




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