<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354611" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hot</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">she was hot, she was so hot<br>I didn't want anybody else to have her,<br>and if I didn't get home on time<br>she'd be gone, and I couldn't bear that-<br>I'd go mad. . .<br>it was foolish I know, childish,<br>but I was caught in it, I was caught.<br>I delivered all the mail<br>and then Henderson put me on the night pickup run<br>in an old army truck,<br>the damn thing began to heat halfway through the run<br>and the night went on<br>me thinking about my hot Miriam<br>and jumping in and out of the truck<br>filling mailsacks<br>the engine continuing to heat up<br>the temperature needle was at the top<br>HOT&nbsp;HOT<br>like Miriam.<br>leaped in and out<br>3 more pickups and into the station<br>I'd be, my car<br>waiting to get me to Miriam who sat on my blue couch<br>with scotch on the rocks<br>crossing her legs and swinging her ankles<br>like she did,<br>2 more stops. . .<br>the truck stalled at a traffic light, it was hell<br>kicking it over<br>again. . .<br>I had to be home by 8,8 was the deadline for Miriam.<br>I made the last pickup and the truck stalled at a signal<br>1/2 block from the station. . .<br>it wouldn't start, it couldn't start. . .<br>I locked the doors, pulled the key and ran down to the <br>station. . .<br>I threw the keys down. . .signed out. . .<br>your goddamned truck is stalled at the signal,<br>I shouted,<br>Pico and Western. . .<br>. . .I ran down the hall,put the key into the door,<br>opened it. . .her drinking glass was there, and a note:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354611" data-title="Hot de Charles Bukowski" data-description="she was hot, she was so hot I didn't want anybody else to have her, and if I didn't get home on time she'd be gone, and I couldn't bear that- I'd go mad. . . it was foolish I know, childish, but I was caught in it, I was caught. I delivered all th..."></div> </div> </div>

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