I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said “I’m going to pee…”; hair ribbons; walking down the boulevard with them at 1:30 in the afternoon, just two people walking together; the long nights of drinking and smoking, talking; the arguments; thinking of suicide; eating together and feeling good; the jokes, the laughter out of nowhere; feeling miracles in the air; being in a parked car together; comparing past loves at 3am; being told you snore, hearing her snore; mothers, daughters, sons, cats, dogs; sometimes death and sometimes divorce, but always carrying on, always seeing it through; reading a newspaper alone in a sandwich joint feeling nausea because she’s now married to a dentist with an I.Q. of 95; racetracks, parks, park picnics; even jails; her dull friends, your dull friends; your drinking, her dancing; your flirting, her flirting; her pills, your fucking on the side, and her doing the same; sleeping together…
Henry Charles Bukowski
1 year ago on April 17, 2011 at 10:40pm
You know what’s strange about you, Denise? You have these skits where you do really well, but then you do really bad. You’re up and down. You’re inconsistent. It’s not like you’re not capable. You’re-what’s the word I’m looking for…irresponsible, that’s what you are. You start off great but you don’t follow through and I need you to follow through. Figure this out.
Frau Graunke
1 year ago on April 18, 2011 at 11:57pm
- Interviewer: What is your definition of love?
- Bukowski: Love… is kinda like… you know when you see a fog in the morning when you wake up before the sun comes out? It’s just there a little while, then it burns away. It burns away… Absolutely… quickly. Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
1 year ago on May 08, 2011 at 08:51am
Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
F. Scott Fitzergald
1 year ago on May 14, 2011 at 09:41pm
Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Calvin and Hobbes
1 year ago on May 24, 2011 at 07:38pm
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
11 months ago on June 08, 2011 at 09:10pm
- Interviewer: Why can’t you be alone without Yoko?
- John Lennon: But I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be. There’s no reason on earth why I should be alone without Yoko. There’s nothing more important than our relationship, nothing. And we dig being together all the time. Both of us could… survive apart but what for? I’m not going to sacrifice love, real love for any whore or any friend or any business, because in the end you’re alone at night and neither of us want to be. And you can’t fill a bed with groupies. It doesn’t work. I don’t want to be a swinger. I’ve been through it all and nothing works better than to have someone you love hold you.
11 months ago on June 08, 2011 at 10:39pm
How can you trust your feelings when they can just disappear like that?
Blue Valentine
11 months ago on July 03, 2011 at 09:27pm
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Holden Caufield
10 months ago on July 10, 2011 at 06:03pm
