Charles Bukowski, American Author ~ Poem and story database

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Slouching Toward Nirvana

    A 4th Of July In The Early 30'S - pg. 3
    Without Stress Or Agony - pg. 9 - [1978 manuscript]
    My Close Call - pg. 12
    Clothes Cost Money - pg. 13
    An Easy Way To Die - pg. 17
    We Have Hand Guns Around Here - pg. 19
    Making Do - pg. 20
    Rare Indeed - pg. 27 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Poet - pg. 28 - [1983 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Bolero - pg. 31
    A Winter Memory - pg. 34 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Living In A Great Big Way - pg. 36
    Then And Now - pg. 37
    How Did They Get Their Job? - pg. 44 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Paper And People - pg. 45
    Writer's Block - pg. 49
    Disorder And Early Sorrow - pg. 51
    In This Place - pg. 54
    The Uninitiated - pg. 55
    Cicada - pg. 57 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Never Interrupt A Writer At Work - pg. 58
    Oh My - pg. 59
    Meeting Them - pg. 60
    No Eulogies, Please - pg. 62 - [1982 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Finality - pg. 64
    The Machinery Of Loss - pg. 65
    Damsels Of The Night - pg. 69
    Forewarned - pg. 74
    She Lost Weight - pg. 75 - [1973 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Military Surplus - pg. 76
    A Difficult Woman - pg. 79
    Talk - pg. 81 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Where The Action Is Real - pg. 83 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Academy Award - pg. 86 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Beach Boys - pg. 88 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    I'm No Good - pg. 90 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Friend Of The Family - pg. 92
    Solving A Crime Before It Begins - pg. 94
    Note For My Wall - pg. 96 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Wine That Roared - pg. 97
    2:07 A.M. - pg. 101 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - pg. 105
    Do We Really Care? - pg. 108
    For Crying Out Loud - pg. 111 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    High School Girls - pg. 113 - [1984 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Emergency - pg. 115 - [1981 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    For A Woman Who Might Some Day Become A Nun - pg. 116
    Some People Ask For It - pg. 117
    Against The Window Pane - pg. 119 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    An Answer To A Day's Worth Of Mail - pg. 121
    New York, New York - pg. 122
    The Knife Waltz - pg. 125 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Dusty Shoes - pg. 126
    Vulgar Poem - pg. 128 - [1981 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    This One - pg. 134
    The Big Lonely Night - pg. 140
    One A.M. - pg. 145
    The Curse - pg. 147 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    With His Awful Teeth - pg. 149
    Golden Boy - pg. 151 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Surreal Tangerines - pg. 153
    Little Magazines And Poetry Chapbooks - pg. 155 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    My Buddy - pg. 156 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Last Friday Night - pg. 158
    Open Here - pg. 160
    A Name Is Nothing If The Named Is Nothing - pg. 161
    The Stupidest Thing I Ever Did - pg. 163 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    You Can't Make A Lion Out Of A Butterfly - pg. 165 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    I Don't Know About You But - pg. 168
    It's A Drag Just Breathing - pg. 172
    A Hard Lesson - pg. 175
    A Conversation To Remember - pg. 177 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Picture Show - pg. 178
    He Played First Base - pg. 179 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Suicide Kid - pg. 181
    Snake Eyes And Faulty Screams - pg. 183
    I Fought Them From The Moment I Saw Light - pg. 184
    Now, Ezra - pg. 187
    Concession - pg. 189
    It - pg. 190 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Terror - pg. 191
    My Rosy Ass - pg. 193
    This Is A Bitter Poem - pg. 196
    Poem For Nobody - pg. 199
    Checkmate - pg. 201
    The Tide - pg. 202
    To Hell And Back - pg. 210 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Something's Knocking At The Door - pg. 212
    Regardless - pg. 214
    The Dandy - pg. 219
    I Am A Mole - pg. 221 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Somebody Else - pg. 222
    IBM Selectric - pg. 224
    Why Oh Why And Oh Why Not? - pg. 227 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Movies - pg. 228
    No Luck At All - pg. 229
    Good News - pg. 232
    Bedpan Nightmare - pg. 234
    Robert - pg. 237 - [1974 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Private Screenings - pg. 239
    As You Slow Down The Mermaids Look The Other Way - pg. 241
    Something New - pg. 243 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Swimming Pool - pg. 244
    The Great Writer - pg. 246 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    I Used To Think - pg. 247
    From The Department Of Health - pg. 249
    Working Out - pg. 251 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    My Friend William Burroughs - pg. 252
    A Note Upon Starvation - pg. 254 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Poem For My 70th Birthday - pg. 256
    You'll Never Know - pg. 257
    Joe - pg. 259
    Top Gun - pg. 263 - [1992 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    It's Strange - pg. 264 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Explosion - pg. 266
    Small Talk - pg. 268 - [1990 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Basic - pg. 270