On this day in 1994 Charles Bukowski died. He published over fifty books of poetry and prose in a career spanning a half-century, becoming the Grand Old Man of the fringe presses. He came by his skid-row, blue-collar themes honestly, enduring decades of bosses
...with bad breath and big feet, men
who look like frogs, hyenas, men who walk
as if melody had never been invented....
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