Life in a Texas Whorehouse by Charles Bukowski

In Life in a Texas Whorehouse by Charles Bukowski, the author opens with, “I got off the bus in this place in Texas and it was cold and I was constipated.” Eventually, in just a few days, he manages a bowel movement: “I went back to the hotel, got hold of a pint of whiskey and 5 or 6 quarts of beer, and I finally shit — what a joyful act!”

The story goes like this…

Bukowski rides the bus from L.A. to New Orleans, only to return to Texas to find Gloria Westhaven, whom he had met on the bus. He shacks up in a whorehouse in Texas to save money and the local newspaper runs his story, helping him find Gloria. In this adventure, Buk finds himself in a barroom brawl and gets a whore beaten by her pimp. Just another day for Charles Bukowski in a small Texas town.
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Life in a Texas Whorehouse can be found in the collection, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories, by Charles Bukowski.

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Charles Bukowski is one of America’s most outrageous authors of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most prolific too. Bukowski was born in Germany but raised in Los Angeles.