Charles Bukowski (acrostic cento ghazal)

Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers.
"Sure." "I've got to go," I told Tammie. "I don't think so."

I was sitting in a chair across from Tammie who was
And my typewriter was gone and my toaster was gone and

That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline.
Tammie had been voted Miss Sunny Bunny at the Orange County Fair

"Galveston." I walked down to Emergency First Aid. A man was
I went up. Tammie was packed, but she was

That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline.
I walked down to Emergency First Aid. A man was

"You've never fucked a dead woman, have you?"



Helen Frankenthaler, The Red Sea, 1982