JAGGERNAUT Wild Horse On A Plastic Phallus

They opened on the 9th at the Forum and I went to the track the same day. The track is right across from the Forum and I looked over as I drove in and thought, well, that's where it's going to be. Last time I had seen them was at the Santa Monica Civic. It was hot at the track and everybody was sweating and losing.; I was hungover but got off well. A track is some place to go so you won't stare at the walls and whack-off, or swallow ant poison. You walk around and bet and wait and look at the people and when you look at the people long enough you begin to realize that it's bad because they are everywhere, but it's bearable-because you adjust somewhat, feeling more like another piece of meat in the tide than if you had stayed home and read Ezra, or Tom Wolfe or the financial section.

Charles Bukowski, now in his fifties, may be one of the foremost American literary figures. Certainly he is one of s the loosest, most instinctive old buzzards around. We love him, and you should too—try either of the best of his rr]any books, Notes of a Dirty Old Man and Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions & General Tales of Ordinary ■ Madness, both available from City Lights. ,"v