Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Bukowski Charles

Author:Bukowski, Charles [Bukowski, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

the meek have inherited

if I suffer at this

typewriter

think how I’d feel

among the lettuce-pickers

of Salinas?

I think of the men

I’ve known in

factories

with no way to

get out—

choking while living

choking while laughing

at Bob Hope or Lucille

Ball

while 2 or 3 children

beat tennis balls against

the walls.

some suicides are never

recorded.

who in the hell is Tom Jones?

I was shacked

with a 24 year old

girl from New York

City for two weeks,

along about the time

of the garbage strike

out there, and one night

this 34-year-old woman

arrived and she said,

“I want to see my rival,”

and she did and then

she said, “o, you’re a

cute little thing!”

next I knew there was a

whirling of wildcats—

such screaming and scratching,

wounded animal moans,

blood and piss . . .

I was drunk and in my

shorts. I tried to

separate them and fell,

wrenched my knee. then

they were through the

door and down the walk

and out in the street.

squadcars full of cops

arrived. a police helicopter

circled overhead.

I stood in the bathroom

and grinned in the mirror.

it’s not often at the

age of 55

that such splendid

action occurs.

it was better than the

Watts riots.

then the 34-year-old

came back in. she had pissed

all over herself and her

clothing was torn and

she was followed by 2 cops

who wanted to know

why.

pulling up my shorts

I tried to explain.

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