Charles Bukowski, American Author ~ Poem and story database

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You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

    1813 - 1883 - pg. 13
    Red Mercedes - pg. 14
    Retired - pg. 17
    Working It Out - pg. 19
    Beasts Bounding Through Time - pg. 21
    Trashcan Lives - pg. 23
    The Lost Generation - pg. 24
    No Help For That - pg. 26
    My Non-Ambition Ambition - pg. 27
    Education - pg. 29
    Downtown L.A. - pg. 32
    Another Casualty - pg. 36
    Driving Test - pg. 38 - [1985 manuscript]
    That's Why Funerals Are So Sad - pg. 40
    Cornered - pg. 42
    Bumming With Jane - pg. 44
    Darkness - pg. 46
    Termites Of The Page - pg. 48
    A Good Time - pg. 51 - [1985 manuscript]
    The Still Trapeze - pg. 53
    January - pg. 55
    Sunny Side Down - pg. 57
    The Man In The Brown Suit - pg. 59
    A Magician, Gone - pg. 62 - [1984 manuscript]
    Well, That's Just The Way It Is - pg. 65 - [1984 manuscript]
    The Chemistry Of Things - pg. 66 - [1984 manuscript]
    Rift - pg. 70 - [1984 manuscript]
    My Friend, The Parking Lot Attendant - pg. 73 - [1984 manuscript]
    Miracle - pg. 75 - [1984 manuscript]
    A Non-Urgent Poem - pg. 76
    My First Affair With That Older Woman - pg. 78
    The Freeway Life - pg. 80
    The Player - pg. 83
    P.O. Box 11946, Fresno, Calif. 93776 - pg. 85
    Poor Al - pg. 87
    For My Ivy League Friends - pg. 89
    Helping The Old - pg. 91
    Bad Times At The 3rd And Vermont Hotel - pg. 92
    The Master Plan - pg. 94
    Garbage - pg. 96
    My Vanishing Act - pg. 99
    Let's Make A Deal - pg. 101
    16-Bit Intel 8088 Chip - pg. 103
    Zero - pg. 104
    Putrefaction - pg. 105 - [1985 manuscript]
    I'll Take It - pg. 107 - [1985 manuscript]
    Supposedly Famous - pg. 109
    The Last Shot - pg. 112
    Whorehouse - pg. 113
    Starting Fast - pg. 118
    The Crazy Truth - pg. 120
    Drive Through Hell - pg. 122
    For The Concerned - pg. 123
    A Funny Guy - pg. 124
    Shoes - pg. 125
    Coffee - pg. 126
    Together - pg. 128
    The Finest Of The Breed - pg. 131
    Close To Greatness - pg. 133
    The Stride - pg. 135
    Final Story - pg. 137 - [1985 manuscript]
    Friends Within The Darkness - pg. 139
    Death Sat On My Knee And Cracked With Laughter - pg. 141
    Oh, Yes - pg. 144
    O Tempora! O Mores! - pg. 145
    The Passing Of A Great One - pg. 147
    The Wine Of Forever - pg. 149
    True - pg. 151
    Glenn Miller - pg. 152
    Emily Bukowski - pg. 153
    Some Suggestions - pg. 155
    Invasion - pg. 157
    Hard Times - pg. 164 - [1985 manuscript]
    Longshot - pg. 167
    Concrete - pg. 171
    Gay Paree? - pg. 175 - [1985 manuscript]
    I Thought The Stuff Tasted Worse Than Usual - pg. 177 - [1985 manuscript]
    The Blade - pg. 179
    The Boil - pg. 181 - [1985 manuscript]
    Not Listed - pg. 183 - [1985 manuscript]
    I'm Not A Misogynist - pg. 186 - [1985 manuscript]
    The Lady In The Castle - pg. 189
    Relentless As The Tarantula - pg. 195
    Their Night - pg. 197
    Huh? - pg. 199
    It's Funny, Isn't It #1 - pg. 201
    It's Funny, Isn't It #2 - pg. 206
    The Beautiful Lady Editor - pg. 208
    About The PEN Conference - pg. 211 - [1986 manuscript]
    Everybody Talks Too Much - pg. 212
    Me And My Buddy - pg. 216
    Song - pg. 218
    Practice - pg. 221 - [1985 manuscript]
    Love Poem To A Stripper - pg. 223
    My Buddy - pg. 225 - [1985 manuscript]
    Jon Edgar Webb - pg. 227
    Thank You - pg. 229
    The Magic Curse - pg. 231
    Party's Over - pg. 233 - [1984 manuscript]
    No Nonsense - pg. 234
    Escape - pg. 235 - [1985 manuscript]
    Wearing The Collar - pg. 236
    A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat - pg. 237
    Marching Through Georgia - pg. 239
    Gone - pg. 240
    I Meet The Famous Poet - pg. 241
    Seize The Day - pg. 247
    The Shrinking Island - pg. 249
    The Magic Machine - pg. 251
    Those Girls We Followed Home - pg. 253 - [1983 manuscript]
    Fractional Note - pg. 256
    A Following - pg. 258
    A Tragic Meeting - pg. 260
    An Ordinary Poem - pg. 266
    From An Old Dog In His Cups - pg. 268
    Let 'Em Go - pg. 270
    Trying To Make It - pg. 272
    The Death Of A Splendid Neighborhood - pg. 274
    You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense - pg. 277
    A Good Gang, After All - pg. 279
    This - pg. 280
    Hot - pg. 281
    Late Late Late Poem - pg. 282
    3 A.M. Games - pg. 284
    Someday I'm Going To Write A Primer For Crippled Saints, But Meanwhile - pg. 288
    Help Wanted - pg. 290 - [1984 manuscript]
    Sticks And Stones - pg. 291
    Working - pg. 293
    Over Done - pg. 296
    Our Laughter Is Muted By Their Agony - pg. 298
    Murder - pg. 299 - [1984 manuscript]
    What Am I Doing? - pg. 301
    Nervous People - pg. 302
    Working Out - pg. 303 - [1984 manuscript]
    How Is Your Heart? - pg. 304
    Forget It - pg. 306
    Quiet - pg. 307 - [1985 manuscript]
    It's Ours - pg. 312