Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Now If You Were Teaching Creative Writing, He Asked, What Would You Tell Them?

Poem written in 1975

I'd tell them to have an unhappy love
affair and hemorrhoids and bad teeth
and to drink cheap wine,
avoid opera and golf and chess...

Magazines and periodicals

Los Angeles Free Press - No. 558 - March 28 - 1975

Alternate titles or versions, draft titles

Now, If You Were Teaching Creative Writing