If anyone can recall the name of this story what collection it appears in, I will be eternally grateful.
The story (I believe) concerns Bukowski's literary avatar (Henry Chinaski) going to visit a brilliant writer.
This writer lives in abject poverty and either rents a room in a "flop house" or a YMCA or homeless shelter.
The writer Chinaski goes to visit is wheelchair bound and Chinaski takes him out (I can't remember where or for what... I think it may be to a reading the writer is giving). The writer makes a bit of a drunken fool of himself. They later wind up in the room of the writer with some girls and the writer makes a further fool of himself and Chinaski leaves, disgusted.