citats - Charles Bukowski, Letter 8-20-70

only problem with Venice is there are a lot of freaky hippy-yippy types. I don't mind a real hippie who slams from town to town, getting jobs picking fruit or whatever the hell. we used to call them bums in my day. I was a bum. still am. got nothing against bums. but most of the Venice hippie types are of the plastic variety, paying rent and with incomes from somewhere and wandering around.