You will encounter many men and women like Bukowski. Genius souls who if living during a different time period would have blossomed. Because of time & place they are trapped and forced to endure a troubled fate. They are misplaced living in a world they can not relate to. Drugs and drinking are away to escape, helps them better cope with reality.
Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.
“I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.”
