From Mr. Bukowski

...because it's just what I like to do
while writing little stories and poems and sometimes novels
influenced by
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Jeffers, Lawrence,
Cummings, Shostakovitch, Mahler, Mozart, Sibelius, Beethoven,
Faulkner, Fante, Sherwood Anderson, Hamsun, my cats, my wife,
the shape of my coat thrown over a chair, the weeping of the planet,
the curving elbow of time, the flight of the hummingbird and
Bartok in a dirty white apron handing me a plate of
shelled nuts.