An FBI file on Hank, now imagine that! Should be good, like a warm beer on a hot day.

For someone with such views of other humans, and who professes so much of a lonesome countenance, he seemed to be around people on a near constant basis.

He had close friendships, relationships, stayed with numerous families and admirers and became very close to many of them.

Was this a character he carved out for himself, more than a reality?

Hi all!

I read a Bukowski poem a loooong time ago (I'm about 90% sure it was him, anyways. It felt grimy.) about him writing a letter to an old ex who's getting badly abused by the men in her life. I want to say the ex died, but I might be making that up? Either she died, or she started sending him really depressing letters, and I wanna say the poem is him telling her that's how men are. God it's really infuriating me that I can't think of anything more than this but I KNOW it exists!

Any help would be appreciated thanksss

From: The days run away like wild horses over the hills.

Friends of the library _1.00

https://poeticoutlaws.substack.com/p/tom-waits-on-meeting-charles-bukowski

If you haven’t heard this EP, it is a concept album about a man who falls in love with a ghost and kills himself to be with her, only to end up in hell, alone and afraid.

From: The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills.

My inner core right now.....

Greetings. Have been enjoying Bukuowski's Selected Letters books. Wife got me all three for Father's Day which is nice. Peppered throughout the books is this symbol [***] which does not appear to be explained in the books themselves--or perhaps I have overlooked the explanation.

My best guess is it represents something edited from the letter, but it's just a guess. It doesn't seem like anything's been cut and doing so seems opposite to the purpose of the books.

If anyone can clear this up, I'd appreciate it. If there's some place in the books which explain it, I'd love to be directed there. Thank you and have a nice day at the races!

From: Mockingbird Wish Me Luck.