on one end and a tub of Heineken on the other. In his legendary style, he drank beer after beer, building his "show" into a raucous crescendo of mirth and satire. About midway through the reading a group of gay men began to heckle him. Buk lectured them on their manners for a few minutes and asked them to leave. Jesus, he was funny.
For my money, Buk is America's greatest poet. Why he was never named Poet Laureate of the US, I just don't understand!
Here is a two minute video of Bukowski's reading of
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