Dedicated to Henry Charles Bukowski
Bukowski quotes on life, death, love, writing....
and sprayed and sprayed
and finally the roach came out
and gave me a very dirty look.
then he fell down into
the bathtub and I watched
him dying
with a subtle pleasure
because I paid the rent
and he didn’t."
“If I’m an ass, I should say so. If I don’t, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.”
the vultures at the zoo
(all three of them)
sit very quietly in their
caged tree
and below
on the ground
are chunks of rotten meat.
the vultures are over-full.
our taxes have fed them
well.
I need a good woman. I need a good woman
more than I need this typewriter, more than
I need my automobile, more than I need
Mozart; I need a good woman so badly that I
can taste her in the air, I can feel her
at my fingertips, I can see sidewalks built
for her feet to walk upon,
I can see pillows for her head,
I can feel my waiting laughter,
I can see her petting a cat,
I can see her sleeping,
I can see her slippers on the floor.
I know that she exists
but where is she upon this earth
as the whores keep finding me?-Charles Bukowski
to go crazy,
if you’re not already
crazy"
you’re a best, she said
your big white belly
and those hairy feet.
you never cut your nails
and you have fat hands
paws like a cat
your bright red nose
and the biggest balls
I’ve ever seen.
you shoot sperm like a
whale shoots water out of the
hole in its back.
beast beast beast,
she kissed me,
what do you want for
breakfast?
Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski
eleven months.
now she’s gone
gone as they go.
mutilated
either by love or no love."
“462-0614” from “Love is a Dog From Hell” collection
Charles Bukowski
but in our land
and in our way
there has never
been a chance;
it’s only when
things are not
going too badly
for a while
that we forget.
Love is a dog from hell - Charles Bukowski
