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Letter to fellow poet Steve Richmond [addressed to "Streekeroney"]. Following another break-up Bukowski offers his penetrating analysis of women: "They come first in adoration but they carry a little brown bag for your balls which they will throw to the seagulls"; and his criticism of men follows right behind: "Men want to sneak in, they'll beg in, lie for pussy, use subterfuge. Pussy is not that important; there are far more important things--like watering the plants, feeding the cats,...". He goes on to say: "I have always been a Male Liberation Unit of One. And I feel it's better to die alone, death is no jinx,... Richmond had planned to print Bukowski's letters to him and even printed a mock-up for a flyer promoting the book entitled "Letters to a Young Poet" [flyer offered elsewhere in this catalogue], John Martin of Black Sparrow Press intervened and the book was never published.