the 300 pound whore

[BabylonHoruv]

which poem starts with "when the 300 pound whore came to town I was ready"? A friend read it to me years ago, but I can't figure out which one it is, and only recently discovered it is a bukowski poem.

 

[Johannes]

It's not a poem, as far as I know, but a column out of "Notes of a Dirty Old Man".

 

[hank solo]

"when the 300 pound whore came to town I was ready"

Is that particular line from one of the Bukowski tapes clips?


edit: No, ignore me. Listen to Johannes. P. 186 in the blue cover edition of Notes.

the night the 300 pound whore came in I was ready. nobody else was ready but I was ready. she was god awful fat all around and not very clean either.

 

[Pessimist]

There's reference in the Bukowski tapes. First he says 250 lbs, then upgrades to 300...

 

[BabylonHoruv]

Thank you. It had been rattling around my head for years and I couldn't place it properly.

 

[zobraks]

I'm not sure this one had been posted here previously, so here it is (just in case). It's from Open City No. 46, March 15-21, 1968.

 

[Otto jr]

There's another version of the 300-lb-whore-story in factotum. She mouth rapes poor Chinaski "took it like a malted through a straw" while Hank was screaming, "NO! NO!"

 

[PhillyDave]

I just introduced a co-worker to this story. He had a liquid lunch and is laughing his ass off.

 

[Johannes]

This story has one of the most epic beginnings of all Bukowski stories, if not of all literature imo. Any story that begins with the sentence "the night the 300-pound whore came in, I was ready" gotta be epic. Then the whole first paragraph knocks it out of the park.