light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:

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

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

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

I was the last one off the plane and there was Joanna Dover. “Joanna, let’s have a Bloody Mary while we wait for my baggage. Oh hell, I don’t have any baggage. But let’s have a Bloody M...