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"My Old Man"
by: Charles Bukowski (1929-1994)
I was 16 years old during the depression. I'd come home drunk and all my clothing\u2026 shorts, shirts, socks, suitcase, and the pages of my short stories would be thrown out on the front lawn and about the street.
My Mother would be waiting behind a tree, "Charlie, Charlie, don't go in there. He'll kill you, he's read your stories....."
I spat, "I can kick his ass...."
She cried, "Charlie, please take this money and find yourself a room."
But it worried my Father that I might not finish high school so I'd be back again.
One evening he walked into my bedroom with the pages of one of my short stories (which I had never submitted to him) and he said, "This is a great short story."
I said, "Okay," and he handed it to me and I read it. It was a story about a rich man who had a fight with his wife and had gone out into the night for a cup of coffee and had observed the waitress, and the spoons, & forks, and the salt & pepper shakers, and the neon sign in the window and then had gone back to his stable to see and touch his favorite horse who then kicked him in the head and killed him.
Somehow the story held meaning for him though when I had written it, I had no idea of what I was writing about.
So I told him, "Okay, old man, you can have it."
And he took it and walked out and closed the door. I guess that's as close as we ever got.
The End. \ud83d\udcdd
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