Charles Bukowski poem and story database

One For The Shoeshine Man

the balance Is in the snails climbing the
Santa Monica cliffs;
the luck is in walking down Western Avenue
and having one of the girls from a massage...

Books

Love is a Dog From Hell - pg. 305 - 1977
Run With the Hunted - 1993
The Pleasures of the Damned - pg. 482 - 2007
On Love - pg. 83 - 2016
Essential Bukowski: Poetry - pg. 100 - 2016

Magazines and periodicals

Los Angeles Free Press - No. 568 - June 6-12 - 1975

Recordings

Hello. It's good to be back. LP - Zweitausendeins - 1978 Audio
Solid Citizen CD - Chinaski Records (bootleg) - 2004 Audio
Baudelaire's Reading mp3 - 2007 Audio
Hello. It's good to be back. CD - Zweitausendeins - 2008 Audio
Thomas Schmitt film, 1978 Hamburg reading - Not commercially released - 2015 Audio