“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“So this, then, is the chamber of the hootchy-kootch. Its bathtub full of orchids. Its closet full of smoke.”
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)
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