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2 pages (of 4) from a Typed Letter, signed. With sketches clipped and pasted in margins.

First and last page of a 4 page letter to Norman Moser, editor of the magazine “ Illuminations”. Letter presumably published in “Illuminations” since there are printer’s notations in the margins, pasted drawings by Bukowski on both pages and a snake at bottom of page one saying “screw Bukowski yeah.” Bukowski talks about the state of the world, his life, literature, and more. “I am white but I am not ashamed of my whiteness; I’ve handled it pretty well—meaning that I am poor....I always lose everything-jobs, women, ballpoint pens, fistfights, requests for grants from The National Foundation of the Arts …. When and if the time comes, I’ll probably sell out as quickly as those typewriter cuties. Probably suck turds for ten bucks an hour. When I’m hired to work as a staff writer for the NEW YORKER, I'll let you know.”