one day Manuel returned to the place, and
she was gone -
no argument, no note, just
gone, all her clothes
all her stuff, and
Manuel sat by the window and looked out
and didn't make his job
the next day or the
next day or
the day after, he
didn't phone in, he
lost his job, got a
ticket for parking, smoked
four hundred and sixty cigarettes, got
picked up for common drunk, bailed
out, went
to court and pleaded
guilty.
when the rent was up he
moved from Beacon street, he
left the cat and went to live with
his brother and
they'd get drunk
every night
and talk about how
terrible
life was.
Manuel never again smoked
long slim cigars
because Shirley always said
how
handsome he looked
when he did.
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
Charles BukowskiTag: reading
Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.
What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what
he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
Charles BukowskiI like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his
passion. He must have looked like an
earthquake walking down the street.
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
Charles BukowskiIt was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
Charles BukowskiWhen a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
Charles BukowskiThings get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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