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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Like a Violet in the Snow
in the earliest possible day
in the blue-headed noon
I will telegraph you a
boney hand
decorated with
sharkskin a
large boy with
yellow teeth and an epileptic father
will bring it to your
door
smile and
accept
it is better than the
alternative

#AmericanWriters #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame #CrucifixInADeathhand

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The Procuress, by Johannes Vermeer
sexpot

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 3
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liberty

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees
the Greek

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…
Ham on Rye: 47

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the little girls

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Letter To John Martin

Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
 4
Women: 29

The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...
Trollius and trellises

of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…
German bar

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a
small talk

all right, while we are gently cel… and while crazy classical music le… my small radio, I light a fresh ci… and realize that I am still very m… the 21st century is almost upon me…
Post Office. Chapter I: 3

The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...
the egg

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.
Curtain

the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…
Ham on Rye: 11

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...
it’s strange

it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not



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