Charles Bukowski — Trading Insults Live

now i've been reading for two hours and forty-five minutes wait, uh don't go yet (audience member yelling) who's mr. bukowski, where is he? oh, question? question? was ist der question? (audience yelling) go on reading? (audience yelling) yeah, what about the frozen man? (mumbling) i can't quite hear you (audience member yelling) not you! i thought you went home to your mother! wait, wait now, oh what the hell drunks on the side the frozen man was just frozen, that's all (audience yelling) write me a letter (woman yelling) *Was?* (audience continues yelling) [?] help me! why am i a frozen man? i had too many drinks with ice cubes in them okay, lets go you're talking more than i am i'm supposed to be the one not you i did not pay to come and see you i was gonna say, all those who think they didn't get a good deal go to the corner and get your money back there's be too many crushed bodies (audience mumbling) you germans are too tough for me, i'm gonna... (man speaking german) oh, go eat butter, you motherfuck footnote upon the construction of the masses some people are young and nothing else and some people are old and nothing else and some people are in between and just in between and if the flies wore clothes on their backs and all the buildings burned in golden fire if heaven shook like a belly dancer and all the atom bombs began to cry some people would be young and nothing else and some people old and nothing else and the rest would be the same the rest would be the same the few who are different, are eliminated quickly enough by the police, by their mothers, their brothers, others by themselves all that's left is what you see it's hard