Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Big Grey Balloon Things, Heavy

Poem written in 1973

into the elephant's ass
shoots the sun, well, not entirely
into the elephant's ass
shoots the sun, hardly halfway...

Books

Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 1, 1959-1974 - pg. 179 - 2011

Magazines and periodicals

New York Quarterly - No. 18 - 1976

Manuscripts

big grey balloon things, heavy - 1973 - carbon

Recordings

Underwater Poetry Festival CD - The Temple/Litmus - Buy the CD - 2007

Alternate titles or versions, draft titles

Elephants In The Zoo

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