"The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the “a.”- from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli"On Cats

I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats
~ Charles Bukowski ~












I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats
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