Charles Bukowski

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement. With Henry Chinaski you meet the lost souls of America, the down-and-outs that look at society from down below, those people that are treated like pariah and that carry with them the stinking smell of death. Henry Chinaski presents the side of American life, or maybe it is universal, that some of us pretend doesn't exist. Therefore, you have the choice of ignoring him or listening to him. I guess that is why Charles Bukowski, by some, is categorized underground, anarchist, beat poet or whatever, anything but a recognized writer. But he told stories about a world that is real, even today, and if you ignore him you ignore a part of your own world. Charles Bukowski died in San Pedro 9 of March 1994 he was born August 16, 1920.