It was wintertime. I was starving to death trying to be a writer in New York. I hadn't eaten for three or four days. So, I finally said, "I'm gonna have a big bag of popcorn." And God, I hadn't tasted food for so long, it was so good. Each kernel, you know, each one was like a steak! I chewed and it would just drop into my poor stomach. My stomach would say, "THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" I was in heaven, just walking along, and two guys happened by, and one said to the other, "Jesus Christ!" The other one said, "What was it?" "Did you see that guy eating popcorn? God, it was awful!" And so I couldn't enjoy the rest of the popcorn. I thought; what do you mean, "it was awful?" I'm in heaven here. I guess I was kinda dirty. They can always tell a fucked-up guy.
Charles Bukowskiit is good to be sitting some place
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones.
great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it.
Whores are natural
Charles BukowskiSome lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted
your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
Charles Bukowskiwe know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
Charles BukowskiI'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.
I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
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