Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
humanity tickets cash
If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
children hate love-you
dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.
easy ifs
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
hurt want
I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt
sex mean men
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
school play benches
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
taught dies
It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.
marriage single wedding
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
mistake seems
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
people world boring
The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
ordinary-world soul understand-me
I have no time for things that have no soul.
flower i-hate-you hands
I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.
exhausted sometimes feels
Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad
hate feel-better people
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.