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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

a killer
consistency is terrific:
shark-mouth
grubby interior with an
almost perfect body,
long blazing hair—
it confuses me
and others
 
she runs from man to man
offering endearments
 
she speaks of love
 
then breaks each man
to her will
 
shark-mouthed
grubby interior
 
we see it too late:
after the cock gets swallowed
the heart follows
 
her long blazing hair,
her almost perfect body
walks down the street
as the same sun
falls upon flowers.

#AmericanWriters #1977 #LoveIsADogFromHell #ThePleasuresOfTheDamned

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Gas

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the birds

the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
the 2nd novel

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I awakened to dryness and the fern… the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled co… surrounded me with their uselessne…
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Post Office. Chapter II: 9

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Women: 17

Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...
Post Office. Chapter II: 16

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some picnic

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the drill

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.
my telephone

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
turnabout

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Throwing Away the Alarm Clock

my father always said, “early to b… early to rise makes a man healthy,… and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our… and we were up at dawn to the smel…
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trying to get even:

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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.



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