Side-by-side poem comparisons
These are comparisons between the manuscript versions that Bukowski typed and what was later published in the Black Sparrow Press and HarperCollins/Ecco collections.
- A.D. 701-62
- again
- another day
- B AS IN BULLSHIT
- big grey balloon things, heavy
- bright boy
- CARLTON WAY OFF OF WESTERN
- darlings of the word
- dirty poem
- DISGUSTING
- do you want to enter the arena?
- for the foxes, the defamers, the tap dancers, and the dreamers of ballet--
- gallery
- good show
- I'm a failure
- I'VE FOUGHT THEM FROM THE MOMENT I SAW LIGHT FROM THE WOMB
- prescience
- regrets of a sort...
- secret laughter shining
- the condition (3 versions)
- The Crunch (3 versions)
- the faithful wife
- the media
- the new revolution
- the perfect silence
- the shit shits
- to weep in her hair (3 versions)
- weep
- zero