Quando eravamo giovani by Charles Bukowski

Author:Charles Bukowski [Charles Bukowski]
Language: ita
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Feltrinelli Editore
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

madman

while

being

checked into the L.A. City jail (I

was still a bit drunk)

there was a crowd of prisoners waiting and

nobody noticed me smoking a cigarette

until some ash dropped off the end

then a cop screamed at me about how

“we kept this fucking place CLEAN!”

“oh,” I said, and then the cop said,

“wise fucker, huh?… O.K., now you

get it!”

and he pushed me into a back room and

locked the door behind

me.

there behind a thick yellow floor-to-ceiling

wire screen was this total

madman

he saw me and screamed

ran violently toward me

smashed into the wire screen

bounced back

rushed the wire again

grabbing it

shaking it

wanting to get through it

trying to get at me

trying to kill me

it was frightening

but I was drunk

found another cigarette

lit it trembling

pushed it through the wire

expecting to get my hand ripped

off

he took the smoke

put it to his lips

inhaled

exhaled

I lit up

also

and we stood there together

smoking.

that’s the way the cop

found us

when he opened the door

behind

me.

“son of a bitch,” he said, “that’s

beautiful, I wish I could let

you go for that.”

“I wish you could too,”

I told him.

“come on,” he

said.

as we walked out the door

the madman grabbed the wire again and

screamed

screamed

screamed

he rattled and banged the

wire

that thick wire

with the yellow paint flaking off

revealing the

pale grey paint

underneath.

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