Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski – Mangiato dalle farfalle / I am eaten by butterflies

John Dykstra, Penalty box, 2016 Maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepstakes maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or a rich lesbian at the top of the hill maybe reincarnation as a frog… or $70,000 found floating in a plastic sack in the bathtub. I need help I am …

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Charles Bukowski – Voi sapete e io so e tu sai / You know and I know and thee know

Jean-Eugène Buland, Le Tripot, 1883 You know and I know and thee knowthat as the yellow shade ripsas the cat leaps wild-eyedas the old bartender leans on the woodas the hummingbird sleepsyou know and I know and thee knowas the tanks practice on false battlefieldsas your tires work the freewayas the midget drunk on cheap …

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Charles Bukowski – La morte si fuma i miei sigari / Death is smoking my cigars

Chuck Close, Big self-portrait, 1968 (acrylic on canvas) – You know: I’m drunk once again here listening to Tchaikovsky on the radio. Jesus, I heard him 47 years ago when I was a starving writer and here he is again and now I am a minor success as a writer and death is walking up …

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