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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

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