Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 3, 1978-1980

Published in 2014 by Prague Collective

Chatterton Took Rat Poison And Left The Rest Of Us In Peace - pg. 3 - manuscript - circa 1975-1978
Victory - pg. 10 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - circa 1975-1978
Hot Dog - pg. 11 - manuscript - 1978
Winter Meeting - pg. 15 - manuscript - 1978
Hooked In H - pg. 17 - manuscript - 1978
Have A Nice Day - pg. 19 - manuscript - 1978
Hollywood Ranch Market - pg. 21 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
The Big Weight-Lifting Feat - pg. 24 - manuscript - 1978
Women At My Dresser Mirror - pg. 27 - manuscript - 1978
Combat Primer - pg. 29 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Coming And Going - pg. 31 - manuscript - 1978
Rape - pg. 32 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Jilted - pg. 37 - manuscript - 1978
Time Off - pg. 39 - manuscript - 1978
My Buddy - pg. 42 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Craft - pg. 44 - manuscript - 1978
A Member Of The Jury - pg. 45 - manuscript - 1978
So I Got Out The AE-1 - pg. 46 - manuscript - 1978
There Was Always The Danger Of Men Who Originally Wrote Things Down Well Of Becoming Professional Writers - pg. 47 - manuscript - 1978
5000 Dollars - pg. 48 - manuscript - 1978
Little Magazines And Poetry Chapbooks - pg. 49 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Good Friday - pg. 50 - manuscript - 1978
My Instructor - pg. 51 - manuscript - 1978
Where's It At? - pg. 57 - manuscript - 1978
The End Of A Short Love Affair - pg. 58 - manuscript - 1978
I've Looked Everywhere For The Can Opener - pg. 59 - manuscript - 1978
A Big One - pg. 60 - manuscript - 1978
The E Was All Right - pg. 61 - manuscript - 1978
The Playboy Of The Western World Leaves The Field To Those Who Desire It - pg. 62 - manuscript - 1978
Death Of The Toteboards, Hollywood Park, April 21, 1978 - pg. 64 - manuscript - 1978
The Yards - pg. 65 - manuscript - 1978
Chilled - pg. 66 - manuscript - 1978
Igloo - pg. 68 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Those - pg. 70 - manuscript - 1978
Crazy - pg. 72 - manuscript - 1978
Heart-Ache - pg. 74 - manuscript - 1978
Racetrack - pg. 76 - manuscript - 1978
You Can't Make A Lion Out Of A Butterfly - pg. 77 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
I.U.(C.)D. - pg. 80 - manuscript - 1978
Travertine - pg. 81 - manuscript - 1978
Funny Man - pg. 82 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Trouble In The Ghetto - pg. 85 - manuscript - 1978
Action Down On The Corner - pg. 88 - manuscript - 1978
Last Try - pg. 90 - manuscript - 1978
The Girls Are Gone - pg. 92 - manuscript - 1978
Academy Award - pg. 93 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Mosquito - pg. 95 - manuscript - 1978
4 Christs - pg. 98 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
A Great Place - pg. 101 - manuscript - 1978
Mouth - pg. 103 - manuscript - 1978
Legs - pg. 104 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
Telephone - pg. 106 - manuscript - 1978
N.Y. Times - pg. 108 - manuscript - 1978
Tank Jobs - pg. 109 - manuscript - 1978
Action - pg. 111 - manuscript - 1978
Sad Letters From Up North - pg. 114 - manuscript - 1978
Talk - pg. 115 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1978
The Pros - pg. 117 - manuscript - 1978
Gift - pg. 118 - manuscript - 1978
He Used To Be - pg. 120 - manuscript - 1978
A Big Thursday Night At Hollywood And Western - pg. 122 - manuscript - 1978
Have A Nice Day - pg. 125 - manuscript - 1978
The Golden God - pg. 127 - manuscript - 1978
Pretty Boy - pg. 129 - manuscript - 1978
The Letters Of John Steinbeck - pg. 132 - manuscript - 1978
Water The Plants - pg. 134 - manuscript - 1978
Dead Again - pg. 139 - manuscript - 1978
Clown Poem - pg. 140 - manuscript - 1978
Social - pg. 141 - manuscript - 1978
1984 - pg. 143 - manuscript - 1978
De Luxe - pg. 144 - manuscript - 1978
Hop, Skip And Jump - pg. 145 - manuscript - 1978
Chill - pg. 146 - manuscript - 1978
Slump - pg. 147 - manuscript - 1978
Interview - pg. 149 - manuscript - 1978
Just A Touch Of Mox - pg. 152 - manuscript - 1978
Reality - pg. 153 - manuscript - 1978
Off The Board - pg. 154 - manuscript - 1979 - circa 1979
He Likes To Be Alone - pg. 155 - manuscript - 1979
Hell - pg. 156 - manuscript - 1979
Horse - pg. 158 - manuscript - 1979
Eating The Father - pg. 160 - manuscript - 1979
My Style - pg. 162 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Thrill Time - pg. 163 - manuscript - 1979
The Old Pinch Hitter - pg. 164 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Nice And Brown - pg. 165 - manuscript - 1979
Bad Day - pg. 167 - manuscript - 1979
The Altar Boy - pg. 169 - manuscript - 1979
Burning Bright - pg. 171 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Vision - pg. 172 - manuscript - 1979
The Alien - pg. 174 - manuscript - 1979
Movie - pg. 175 - manuscript - 1979
The 9 Horse - pg. 177 - manuscript - 1979
The Piano Player - pg. 179 - manuscript - 1979
Of Course - pg. 181 - manuscript - 1979
Hemingway - pg. 182 - manuscript - 1979
A Place To Go - pg. 183 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
What Have I Seen? - pg. 184 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
One For The Gang - pg. 185 - manuscript - 1979
Success - pg. 187 - manuscript - 1979
My Father Wanted Me To Be A Mechanical Draftsman But - pg. 188 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
I Don't Need A Cleopatra - pg. 190 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Flight Time - pg. 191 - manuscript - 1979
The Answer - pg. 194 - manuscript - 1979
The Fix - pg. 195 - manuscript - 1979
The New Neighborhood - pg. 196 - manuscript - 1979
A Reader - pg. 197 - manuscript - 1979
Good Show - pg. 198 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
The Gamblers - pg. 199 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Trouble - pg. 200 - manuscript - 1979
Me And Pound's Girlfriend - pg. 201 - manuscript - 1979
Parts Dept. - pg. 202 - manuscript - 1979
Novels - pg. 204 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
The X-Con - pg. 206 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Soundless - pg. 208 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
The Drunk With The Little Legs - pg. 209 - manuscript - 1979
Your Move - pg. 211 - manuscript - 1979
Bruckner (2) - pg. 212 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Locks - pg. 214 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Reject - pg. 222 - manuscript - 1979
Wall Clock - pg. 226 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Pleased To Meet You - pg. 228 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
The Parts Dept. - pg. 231 - manuscript - 1979
The Payoff - pg. 232 - manuscript - 1979
The Princess Tina - pg. 233 - manuscript - 1979
Tough Cob - pg. 235 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
The Drowning Of The Id - pg. 236 - manuscript - 1979
Jam - pg. 237 - manuscript - 1979
With A Flagpole Over The San Pedro Harbor - pg. 238 - manuscript - 1979
Manx - pg. 240 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Token Drunk - pg. 243 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
The Liberated Woman And The Liberated Air - pg. 246 - manuscript - 1980
Lazing In San Pedro - pg. 248 - manuscript - 1980
Swinging From The Dumb Hook - pg. 249 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
Ah - pg. 251 - manuscript - 1980
A Saturday Afternoon - pg. 252 - manuscript - 1980
Helping Friends - pg. 257 - manuscript - 1980
The Temporal Ease - pg. 258 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
A Fine Night - pg. 260 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
The Game - pg. 262 - manuscript - 1980
4 Cops - pg. 263 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
Ladies Talking On The Telephone - pg. 265 - manuscript - 1980
American Literature II - pg. 266 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
Dog Fight - pg. 267 - manuscript - 1980
Don't Save Me - pg. 269 - manuscript - 1980
Pop - pg. 270 - manuscript - 1980
Dear Friends - pg. 271 - manuscript - 1980
Unemployed And Shacking - pg. 272 - manuscript - 1980
Quits - pg. 274 - manuscript - 1980
Heads Without Faces, Seen In All The Places - pg. 276 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
Only The Dragging Of Time Like A Dry Turd Being Pulled By A String - pg. 278 - manuscript - 1980
Horses Don't Bet On People And Neither Do I - pg. 279 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
1810 - 1856 - pg. 281 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
The Poetry Game - pg. 282 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
5.90 Per Pound - pg. 284 - manuscript - 1980
An Unliterary Afternoon - pg. 285 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
Drink And Wait - pg. 287 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
Counter - pg. 288 - manuscript - 1980
It Sucks - pg. 289 - manuscript - 1980
A Horror Poem - pg. 291 - manuscript - 1980
The Miracle Man - pg. 292 - manuscript - 1980
In My Day We Used To Call It Pussy-Whipped - pg. 294 - manuscript - 1980
Merry, Merry - pg. 299 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
All That Like That - pg. 301 - manuscript - 1980
Lunch - pg. 302 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1980
The Guitar Player - pg. 307 - manuscript - 1980
As Much As I Hate To Use This Word - pg. 312 - manuscript - 1980