Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

　　from "neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane"

　　young young young, only wanting the Word,
　　going mad in the streets and in the bars,
　　brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women
　　screaming in
　　your cheap room,
　　you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North
　　Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights

　　sifting through the madness for the Word, the
　　line
　　the way,
　　hoping for a check from somewhere,
　　dreaming of a letter from a great editor:
　　"Chinaski, you don't know how long we've been waiting for you!"
　　no chance at all.

作者簡介

　　Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.