Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
sleep cat waiting
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
men envy hell
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
humanity
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
art simple intellectual
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
cat people forever
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.
I hope that death contains less than this.
hell bother
Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
marijuana men medicine
The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
drink response
That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.
shoes shirts
I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.
want ifs
If you want to create, you'll create...
hate facade
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
purple doe strange
purple does something strange to me
way
I am a poem. There is no way out.