Chuck Naked

A raunchy one from Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, a book about his youth spent in unemployment:

I understood it too well now – that great lovers were always men of leisure. I fucked better as a bum than as a puncher of timeclocks.

Thanks to Reader M for sending it in.

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12 May 2025 No Comments

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