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Charles Bukowski

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from my bed …

Charles Bukowski

don’t ever get the idea I am a poet; you can see me …

Charles Bukowski

he lives in a house with a swimming pool …

Charles Bukowski

the Chinaman said don’t take the hardware …

Charles Bukowski

I had just won $115 from the headshakers and …

Charles Bukowski

I went over the other day …

Charles Bukowski

30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and one fox …

Charles Bukowski

I suppose so. …

Charles Bukowski

O lord, he said, Japanese women, …

Charles Bukowski

here they come …

Charles Bukowski

the weather is hot on the back of my watch …

Charles Bukowski

I got in the shower …

Charles Bukowski

there was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint …

Charles Bukowski

man, he said, sitting on the steps …

Charles Bukowski

he hooked to the body hard …

Charles Bukowski

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