Tag Archives: Charles Bukowski

Sadness Of The Sober

February 6, 2025 – 12:45 pm

A woman reacted to this quote online. She – This man was really a sad lunatic. To go through life and seeing all that misery and ugliness, which I don’t deny, but not seeing the beauty of a first day of spring , blossoming of flowers , or the jubilant sound of the laughter of […]

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Born Into This 2003

February 6, 2025 – 12:29 pm

Born Into This 2003 Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of ‘Notes of a Dirty Old Man’, ‘Love Is a Dog from Hell’, and the autobiographical novels, ‘Women’, ‘Hollywood’, and ‘Post Office’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Z1_pw0HeY

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FLOP HOUSE Charles Bukowski

April 16, 2024 – 12:45 pm

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse, with nothing but one light bulb and 56 men squeezed together on cots with everybody snoring at once and some of those snores so deep and gross and unbelievable— dark snotty gross subhuman wheezings from hell itself. your mind almost breaks under those death-like sounds and […]

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PEOPLE SUCK Gus and the Snowmen – 2014

February 6, 2023 – 1:21 am

This weekend will be Super Bowl Sunday and I am wandering around the Fort Greene Observatory in a green cotton robe. The windows are open and the curtains are up. The people in the new condo building across the way are probably staring into their binoculars and saying, “That crazy old coot is naked again.” […]

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Born Into This Charles Bukowski

December 2, 2012 – 1:16 pm

Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break As political landscapes dissolve As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree As the oily fish spit out their oily prey As the sun is masked We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully […]

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