B&N’s Nook is one Sexy beast.

–ciao, baby!

“From modern day New York to the dying land of Faerie, this book reveals the world of Peter Pan through the eyes of an insecure runaway who is seduced by Peter’s charm. But any dreams of a fairy wonderland are quickly replaced by the reality of life and death survival as Peter’s recruits are forced into a lethal battle.”

What the hell?! Why am I only finding out about the mans new book now?

–Ciao Baby!

Catman Cohen- fade into you
–ciao, baby!

I get many phonecalls now.
They are all alike.
“are you Charles Bukowski,
the writer?”
“yes,” I tell them.
and they tell me that they understand my writing.
and some of them are writers
or want to be writers.
and they have dull and
horrible jobs
and they can’t face the room
the apartment
the walls
that night–
they want somebody to talk to,
and they don’t believe
that I can’t help them.
I don’t know the words.
they don’t belive
that often now
I double up in my room
grab my gut
and say
“Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
not again!”
they can’t believe
that the loveless people
the streets
the loneliness
the walls
are mine too.
and when I hang up my phone
they believe I have held back my
secret.

I don’t write out of
knowledge.
when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease some of this.

That’s why my number’s listed.

–ciao, baby!