On Drinking by Charles Bukowski

Author:Charles Bukowski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

beer

I don’t know how many bottles of beer

I have drunk while waiting for things

to get better.

I don’t know how much wine and whiskey

and beer

mostly beer

I have drunk after

splits with women—

waiting

for the phone to ring

waiting for the sound of footsteps,

and the phone never rings

until much later

and the footsteps never arrive

until much later

when my stomach is coming up

out of my mouth

they arrive as fresh as spring flowers:

“what the hell have you done to yourself?

it will be 3 days before you can fuck me!”

the female is durable

she lives seven and one half years longer

than a man, and she drinks very little beer

because she knows it’s bad for the

figure.

while we are going mad

they are out

dancing and laughing

with horny cowboys.

well, there’s beer

sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles

and when you pick them up

the bottles fall through the wet bottom

of the paper sacks

rolling

clanking

spilling grey wet ash

and stale beer,

or the sacks fall over at 4 A.M.

in the morning

making the only sound in your life.

beer

rivers and seas of beer

beer beer beer

the radio singing love

songs

as the phone remains silent

and the walls stand

straight up and down

the beer is all there is.

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