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
mass sane know-how
the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
believe wine play
There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
finished
this time has finished me.
book people waiting
That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
bob way dylan
but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.
youth celebration one-time
my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.
morning holiday phones
soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.
light people darkness
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
morning smoking cigarette
we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.
clarity meant-to-be
there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
love too-much used
and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
eye sea color
and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
chance distracted persons
Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?