Charles Bukowski on Women, Traps

"some girl in her twenties, just out of a madhouse, rather hanging around now and then. I find her quite sane, quite lovely...especially the color of the eye and the way it looks at me. she's quite nice to me but most women are at the start...then they trap you in, and BOOM!!!...the wake-up...and you think, after all those others, you should have known better...men are too adventurous...esp. old men like me...whiskey, women, horses...same old song...then you're in the cage, wondering what happened."

-Charles Bukowski, 1971