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