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The people are bored, they don't know what to do, so they play the office-romance game. What I am trying to say is, there is a certain game played in offices all over America. EVEN THE PURPLE STICKINPIN HAS AN ASSHOLE!” THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE CARWASH BOY HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE JUDGE AND THE MURDERER HAVE ASSHOLES.
#Charles bukowski full#
YOUR ASSHOLE, MY ASSHOLE, THE WORLD IS FULL OF BILLIONS OF ASSHOLES. “WHAT'S WRONG WITH ASSHOLES, BABY? YOU'VE GOT AN ASSHOLE, I'VE GOT AN ASSHOLE! YOU GO TO THE STORE AND BUY A PORTERHOUSE STEAK, THAT HAD AN ASSHOLE! ASSHOLES COVER THE EARTH! IN A WAY TREES HAVE ASSHOLES BUT YOU CAN'T FIND THEM, THEY JUST DROP THEIR LEAVES."YES, PULL UP OUR SHORTS!" I screamed at her and walked off into the wall of water. "Lady, don't you realize that we don't even have time to pull up our shorts?"
"Wouldn't you like to come in and have a cup of tea and dry off?". They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. "Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job it takes a wise man to make it without working.". It was the poor part of town-small houses and courts with mailboxes full of spiders, mailboxes hanging by one nail, old women inside rolling cigarettes and chewing tobacco and humming to their canaries and watching you, an idiot lost in the rain. I thought about taking a shower but I could see the headlines: MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.I found out later that mail for the church was delivered to the parish house around the corner. Forget the whole fucking thing." Then I walked out and took the next day off. "All right," I said, "Jonstone is a fine man. He and Jonstone must have slept together. I believe the poor fellow actually wanted to kill me. JONSTONE HAS BEEN WITH THE POST OFFICE FOR 30 YEARS!" "How long have you been in the Post Office?" "Don't be silly, he's an obvious sadist," I said. The way my shackjob Betty and I drank there was hardly money for clothes. I didn't even have a uniform, just a cap. But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen do is drop in letters and get laid. #Charles bukowski free#
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. But it was kind of nice, pulling at those cows' tits (pg. I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. in Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993 (2003), p. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals. I've never met another man I'd rather be. Moving this little bit of light toward us Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsĬeline going broke as a doctor of medicineīeethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness. It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning. 1.10 The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998). 1.8 The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). 
1.2 Tales of ordinary madness (1967-83).
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