#AmericanWriters #1973 #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
the men phone and ask me that. are you really Charles Bukowski the writer? they ask. I’m a sometimes writer, I say, most often I don’t do anything.
my grandmother had a serious gas problem. we only saw her on Sunday. she’d sit down to dinner and she’d have gas.
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
One night I was coming around the corner after sneaking down to the cafeteria for a pack of smokes. And there was a face I knew. It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed with under The Sto...
listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...
The jew bent over and died. 99 machine guns were shipped to France. somebody w… while I inspected the propeller of an old monoplane
when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.
now more and more all these people running around wearing the American Flag Shirt and it was more or less once assum… think but I’m not sure)
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;
Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;
I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra
there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me
When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...