bukowski
splinken Chicago

"I've made it," she said, "I've come
through," she had on new boots, pants
and a white sweater. "I know what I
want now." she was from Chicago and
had settled in L.A.'s Fairfax district.

"you promised me champagne,"
she said.
"I was drunk when I phoned. how about
a beer?"
"no, pass me your joint."
she inhaled, let it out:
"this isn't very good stuff."
she handed it back.

"there's a difference," I said, "between
making it and simply becoming hard."

"you like my boots?"
"yes, very nice."
"listen, I've got to go. can I use
your bathroom?"
"sure."

when she came out she had on a
large lipstick mouth. I hadn't seen
one of those since I was a boy.
I kissed her in the doorway
feeling the lipstick rub off on my
lips.

"goodbye," she said.
"goodbye," I said.

she went up the walk toward her car.
I closed the door.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't
me.
I know more women like that than any
other kind.

Charles Bukowski, copyright 1977
000911
...
splinken a couple of very interesting interpersonal relationships have been solidified in the shadow of this pervy old man.

rest in peace, chuck.
000915
...
m. mouse "Woke up this morning
and it seemed to me
that every night turns out to be a little bit more like Bukowski
and yeah
i know he's a pretty good read
but god, who'd wanna be
god, who'd wanna be
such an asshole?"
040608
...
pipiola "sometimes you've got to kill 4 or 5
thousand men before you somehow
get to believe that the sparrow
is immortal, money is piss and
that you have been wasting
your time."
040627
...
Piso Mojado 'i bang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever
but i am bigger than the mountains'
041021
...
unhinged good_news_forpeoplewholove_bad_news 041021
...
daxle this song has been heavy on my mind lately

ties in with my memories of "bar fly"
041022
...
modest birdmad "if god controls the land and disease and keeps a watchful eye on me
if he's so damn mighty
my problem is that i can't see
who would wanna be
who would wanna be
such a control freak?"
041025
...
Piso Mojado in the morning it was morning and i was still alive 041104
...
Piso Mojado the drunken poet
(a genius by daylight)
who places long-distance calls at 3am
and then lets you sit
holding the phone while he vomits
(he calls it 'The Night of the Long Knives')
getting his kicks out of the death call...

-The Twelve Dancing Princesses,
Anne Sexton
050217
...
milo "whenever I see a photo of myself
I think,
Jesus Christ, look at that ugly
bloated
whale of a fish!

no wonder I had such a problem
getting them
from the couch to the
bedroom

and had to get
myself
drunk
before
attempting
it."


[ow]
050314
...
jane cheers 050314
...
djstar BEER - bukowski
from: Love is A Mad Dog From Hell
I don't know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better
I dont know how much wine and whisky
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women-
waiting for the phone to ring
waiting for the sound of footsteps,
and the phone to ring
waiting for the sounds 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 the male, and she drinks very little beer
because she knows its 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 one up
the bottles fall through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling gray 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
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.
050609
...
djstar BEER - bukowski
from: Love is A Mad Dog From Hell
I don't know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better
I dont know how much wine and whisky
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women-
waiting for the phone to ring
waiting for the sound of footsteps,
and the phone to ring
waiting for the sounds 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 the male, and she drinks very little beer
because she knows its 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 one up
the bottle falls through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling gray 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
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.
050609
...
jane bukowski when you wait for the dawn to crawl through the screen like a burglar to take your life away


the snake had crawled the hole,
and she said,
tell me about
yourself.



and
I said,
I was beaten down
long ago
in some alley
in another
world.



and she said,
we're all
like pigs
slapped down some lane,
our
grassbrains
singing
toward the
blade.



by
god,
you're an
odd one,
I said.



we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.





from "the pleasures of the damned" 2007
080623
...
stork daddy born into this. 080623
...
jane dinosauria_we 080624
what's it to you?
who go
blather
from