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Charles Bukowski

" take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning "

Charles Bukowski

Writing

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" the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme. "

Charles Bukowski

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" Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. "

Charles Bukowski

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" Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry

" when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns "

Charles Bukowski

Courage

" Hey you, dragging the halo-how about a holiday in the islands of grief? Tongue is the word I wish to have with you.Your eyes are so blue they leak.Your legs are longer than a prisoner'slast night on death row.I'm filthier than the coal miner's bathtuband nastier than the breath of Charles Bukowski.You're a dirty little windshield.I'm standing behind you on the subway, hard as calculus. My breathbe sticking to your neck like graffiti.I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, waiting for you to uncross your boundaries.I want to rip off your logicand make passionate sense to you.I want to ride in the swing of your hips.My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.But with me for a lover, you won't needcatastrophes. What attracted me in the first placewill ultimately make me resent you.I'll start telling you lies, and my lies will sparkle, become the bad stars you chart your life by.I'll stare at other women so blatantlyyou'll hear my eyes peeling, because sex with you is like Great Britain: cold, groggy, and a little uptight.Your bed is a big, soft calculatorwhere my problems multiply.Your brain is a garageI park my bullshit in, for free.You're not really my new girlfriend, just another flop sequel of the first one, who was based on the true story of my mother.You're so ugly I forgot how to spell.I'll cheat on you like a ninth grade math test, break your heart just for the sound it makes.You're the 'this' we need to put an end to.The more you apologize, the less I forgive you.So how about it? "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry

" sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted ‚Äì stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it‚Äôs still nice to beBukowski. "

Charles Bukowski

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" I do think that poetry is important though, if you don‚Äôt strive at it, if you don‚Äôt fill it full of stars and falseness. "

Charles Bukowski

falseness

" it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man. "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry

" And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw. "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry

" during my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't call ithappiness-it was more of an innerbalancethat settled forwhatever was occuringand it helped in thefactoriesand when relationshipswent wrongwith thegirls.it helpedthrough thewars and thehangoversthe backalley fightsthehospitals.to awaken in a cheap roomin a strange city andpull up the shade-this was the craziest kind ofcontentmentand to walk across the floorto an old dresser with acracked mirror-see myself, ugly,grinning at it all.what matters most ishow well youwalk through thefire. "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry

" If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket. "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry , Humanity

" Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. "

Charles Bukowski

Poetry , Conversation

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