By Charles Bukowski
Screams from the Balcony is a suite of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's existence as he attempts to get released and paintings at a postal workplace, all whereas ingesting and gambling.
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Of course, Eliot’s gone down, Auden’s gone down, and William C. Williams has completely fallen apart. Do you think it’s age? And E. E. Cummings blanking out. Sherman’s coming on, though, taking them in the stretch, stride by stride, clomp, clomp, clomp, Sherman’s coming on toward the wire and the ugly crowd screams. [* * *] Sheri Martinelli, mentioned in this next and several subsequent letters, was an American artist for whose book Ezra Pound wrote an introduction: La Martinelli (Milan, 1956).
Luck. There sat one chilled and lovely glass bottle of Miller’s. I drank that and went to bed. And that was the night of the photos. I hope something comes out of it because I don’t think I can go through with it again. Not this year, anyhow. I mean, other people can do these things easily. Me, I’m a frog on a dissection table. I guess that’s why I write. They keep cutting me open. It’s nothing profound, but so odd. And all these photos with this hunk of hair standing up on my head. I can’t even walk across a room with success.
And I may be rotting myself and may not know it. It’s just like when someone else is sleeping with your wife: you are the last to find out, or you never find out. Such is the soul. We are tested when we lace our shoes, or in the manner in which we scratch our back. [* * *] The following is from the letter accepting the “Outsider of the Year” Award that Bukowski sent for publication. [To Jon Webb] [ca. October 1, 1962] [* * *] I have always been pretty much outside it all, and I don’t mean just the art I try to send down through my typewriter, although there it appears I stand outside the gate also.