Thanks for everyone's feedback. I agree with most above, it was the casualness that drew my to the story, and while I did want to go a little bigger with it, it's not authentic Buk. I think it should be viewed more as the world of Bukowski, but with a different character.
I wanted to share a short film I directed called Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs. It had its world premiere tonight at the 2015 San Pedro International Film Festival, in a Bukowski themed category as part of their "Laughing Heart 95th Birthday Celebration".
It's inspired by a segment from...
I really need more information on this incident ] and finding this poem is proving to be harder than I thought. I can't even by the Charles Bukowski Tapes as I need to have everything I can get on it by thursday. Would anyone be willing to send me even a crappy cellphone recorded audio recording...
Thanks guys for all your answers. While I'm pretty sure its the poem I'm thinking of (3 women doesn't mention the disbelief, and I've never seen those interviews) this has at least helped to point me in the right direction. If anyone can name that poem however it would be wonderful. Its for a...
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I am looking for the name of a poem in which a character sits on a fire escape and watches someone fall to their death. He goes to grab a girl he is with but she doesn't believe him. Eventually she sees it and he is satisfied to be right.
I think it appears in either Slouching Toward...