Charles Bukowski poem and story database

The Miracle

Poem written circa 1961

To work with an art form
does not mean to
screw off like a tape-worm
with his belly full...

Books

Poems and Drawings - pg. 26 - 1962
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills - pg. 152 - 1969

Magazines and periodicals

Soundings - Vol. 2 - No. 1 - May - 1970
Thinking Of The Lost World - 1980