Charles Bukowski, American Author ~ Poem and story database

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    The Tragedy Of The Leaves - pg. 15
    To The Whore Who Took My Poems - pg. 16
    The State Of World Affairs From A 3rd Floor Window - pg. 17
    For Marilyn M. - pg. 18
    The Life Of Borodin - pg. 19
    No Charge - pg. 20
    A Little Sleep And Peace Of Silence - pg. 21
    The Twins - pg. 23
    The Day It Rained At The Los Angeles County Museum - pg. 25
    2 P.M. Beer - pg. 26
    Hooray Say The Roses - pg. 27
    The Sunday Artist - pg. 28
    Old Poet - pg. 29
    The Race - pg. 31
    Vegas - pg. 33
    The House - pg. 35
    Side Of The Sun - pg. 37
    The Talkers - pg. 38
    A Poorly Night - pg. 39
    The Priest And The Matador - pg. 41
    Love And Fame And Death - pg. 42
    My Father - pg. 43
    The Bird - pg. 44
    The Singular Self - pg. 45
    A Literary Romance - pg. 47
    View From The Screen - pg. 51
    Crucifix In A Deathhand - pg. 52
    Grass - pg. 54
    Fuzz - pg. 55
    No Lady Godiva - pg. 56
    The Workers - pg. 58
    Mama - pg. 63
    Machineguns, Towers And Timeclocks - pg. 64
    Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks And You - pg. 67
    Sway With Me - pg. 71
    Lack Of Almost Everything - pg. 72
    No. 6 - pg. 73
    Don't Come Around But If You Do - pg. 74
    Startled Into Life Like Fire - pg. 76
    Stew - pg. 77
    Lilies In My Brain - pg. 79
    I Am Dead But I Know The Dead Are Not Like This - pg. 82
    Like A Violet In The Snow - pg. 83
    Letter From Too Far - pg. 84
    Man In The Sun - pg. 85
    Woman - pg. 86
    Like All The Years Wasted - pg. 87
    They, All Of Them, Know - pg. 89
    A Note On Rejection Slips - pg. 93
    Beerbottle - pg. 97
    Burn And Burn And Burn - pg. 97
    The Body - pg. 98
    K.O. - pg. 101
    Sunday Before Noon - pg. 102
    7th Race When The Angels Swung Low And Burned - pg. 104
    On Going Out To Get The Mail - pg. 106
    I Wanted To Overthrow The Government But All I Brought Down Was Somebody's Wife - pg. 108
    The Girls - pg. 110
    A Pleasant Afternoon In Bed - pg. 111
    True Story - pg. 113
    X-Pug - pg. 115
    Living - pg. 118
    The Intellectual - pg. 121
    Shot Of Red Eye - pg. 123
    I Met A Genius - pg. 127
    Poverty - pg. 128
    To Kiss The Worms Goodnight - pg. 130 - [1966 manuscript]
    John Dillinger And Le Chasseur Maudit - pg. 132
    The Flower Lover - pg. 134
    Traffic Ticket - pg. 135
    A Nice Day - pg. 137
    He Even Looked Like A Nice Guy - pg. 139
    Class - pg. 140
    The Weather Is Hot On The Back Of My Watch - pg. 143
    Note To A Lady Who Expected Rupert Brooke - pg. 145
    The Difference Between A Bad Poet And A Good One Is Luck - pg. 147
    The Curtains Are Waving And People Walk Through The Afternoon Here And In Berlin And In New York City And In Mexico - pg. 149
    For The Mercy Mongers - pg. 152
    The Trash Men - pg. 156
    Zoo - pg. 157
    TV - pg. 158
    Lost - pg. 160
    Hot (She Was So Hot) - pg. 161
    Love - pg. 163
    Burned - pg. 164
    The Way - pg. 165
    Out Of The Arms - pg. 166
    Death Of An Idiot - pg. 167
    Tonalities - pg. 169 - [Unknown date manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Hey, Dolly - pg. 170
    Beans With Garlic - pg. 171
    Looking For A Job - pg. 172
    The 8 Count - pg. 174
    Dogfight - pg. 176
    Letters - pg. 177
    Yes Yes - pg. 178
    Eddie And Eve - pg. 179
    The Fisherman - pg. 181
    Warm Asses - pg. 182
    What's The Use Of A Title? - pg. 183
    The Tigress - pg. 184
    The Catch - pg. 185
    Wax Job - pg. 187
    Some People - pg. 190
    Father, Who Art In Heaven - pg. 191
    Nerves - pg. 192
    The Rent's High Too - pg. 193
    Laugh Literary - pg. 195
    Deathbed Blues - pg. 196
    Children In The Sky - pg. 198
    On The Circuit - pg. 200
    My Friend, Andre - pg. 201
    I Was Glad - pg. 202
    Trouble With Spain - pg. 204
    Wet Night - pg. 206
    We, The Artists - pg. 208
    I Can't Stay In The Same Room With That Woman For Five Minutes - pg. 210
    Charles - pg. 212
    The Sound Of Human Lives - pg. 214
    Save The Pier - pg. 216
    Charisma - pg. 219
    Hell Hath No Fury - pg. 220
    Pull A String, A Puppet Moves - pg. 221
    Tougher Than Corned Beef Hash - pg. 222
    Voices - pg. 223
    Straight On Through - pg. 226
    Dreamlessly - pg. 229
    Palm Leaves - pg. 232