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“I Like Your Books,” by Charles Bukowski

A reader stops Bukowski (his literary alter ego, Henry Chinaski) in line at the racetrack to tell him he likes his books, but the writer gives the guy the cold shoulder:

In the betting line the other
day
man behind me asked,
“are you Henry
Chinaski?”

“uh huh,” I answered.

“I like your books,” he went
on.

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