Brother Pill-heads in Arms
Ruminations... John Thomas, yes... John just wanted "to be happy" according to what Bukowsky wrote about him in some of his early works, and John had a generous dish of pills he found handy to perhaps help the process of happiness along, with Bukowski helping himself too in this See's candy approach to god-only-knows-what pill they just took... In Hollywood, after Hank had made it with the launch of the movie Barfly, and John, under a character name, was at one of the celebrations, I remember Bukowski writing that his friend looked like someone "who had just lost his pawn in a chess game," or words to that effect"”meaning that his friend might have been slightly envious of Bukowski's success... So Bukowski made it and John probably helped him make it by being a good and generous friend, and I always enjoyed that Bukowski appeared to like him a great, great deal and they had many good times doing... well, just passing the pills and time together...
