Charles Bukowski: The Continual Condition: Poems [2010] paperback ZSCFI the last element he needs

the last element he needs to become "perfect

The seventh laugh-out-loud

From the author of the Booker International-shortlisted A Whole Life

published to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit

as the Chimes ran free and threatened magic everywhere

Charles Bukowski: The Continual Condition: Poems [2010] paperback ZSCFI the last element he needsI saw a tramp last night the way the old dog walked with dotted, tired fur down nobody's alley being nobody's dog past the empty vodka bottles past the peanut butter jars, with wires full of electricity and the birds asleep somewhere, down the alley he went nobody's dog moving through it all, brave as any army. In the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture icon, a writer and poet of sublime talent who, as Leonard Cohen aptly