The Pleasures of the Damned. Charles Bukowski

oh, yes Phillipe’s 1950 downtown elephants in the zoo girl on the escalator the shit shits big time loser come on in! the bakers of 1935 secret laughter an empire of coins what? the American Flag Shirt now she’s free gold in your eye a great writer the smoking car the shoelace self-inflicted wounds Verdi the young lady who lives in Canoga Park life of the king my failure a boy and his dog liberated woman and liberated man the crunch funhouse the poetry reading somebody the colored birds poem for personnel managers: my fate my atomic stockpile Bruckner (2) hello, how are you? vacancy batting slump bang bang the pleasures of the damned one more good one the little girls hissed ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha thoughts from a stone bench in Venice scene in a tent outside the cotton fields of Bakersfield: 3:16 and one half … a literary discussion butterflies my friend William safe starve, go mad, or kill yourself the beautiful lady those marvelous lunches The Look: the big one the genius about the PEN conference what a man I was Scarlet like a flower in the rain a killer prayer in bad weather melancholia eat your heart out I made a mistake she comes from somewhere The High-Rise of the New World car wash Van Gogh the railroad yard the girls at the green hotel in other words Destroying Beauty peace afternoons into night we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain marina: Trollius and trellises beagle coffee and babies magical mystery tour the last generation a radio with guts the egg a killer gets ready in the center of the action poetry notes upon the flaxen aspect: the fisherman the 1930s the burning of the dream sit and endure Goldfish finish dreaming my special craving A Love Poem one