Charles Bukowski poem and story database

On Cats

Published in 2015 by Ecco

Conversation On A Telephone - pg. 6 - circa 1960
The Cat - pg. 8 - circa 1960
I Do Not Always Hate The Cat That Kills The Bird, Only The Cat That Kills Me - pg. 12 - circa 1963
Startled Into Life Like Fire - pg. 15 - circa 1965
The Devious Good Of Rescuing The Suffering - pg. 19 - circa 1964
Portrait Of A Soul For Flies - pg. 22 - circa 1966
untitled - pg. 27 - circa 1966
The Mockingbird - pg. 29 - 1971
Looking At The Cat's Balls - pg. 30 - circa 1972
The Strangest Thing - pg. 33
Wet Night - pg. 35
Little Tigers Everywhere - pg. 38 - manuscript - 1975
Bad Fix - pg. 42 - circa 1978
Gift - pg. 44 - manuscript - 1978
Butch Van Gogh - pg. 46 - 1978
A Reader - pg. 48 - manuscript - 1979
Manx - pg. 49 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
Night Work - pg. 54
Cats And People And You And Me And Everything - pg. 58 - 1981
The History Of A Tough Motherfucker - pg. 61 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1983
Terminology - pg. 64 - 1983
One For The Old Boy - pg. 68 - 1983
A Nature Poem For You - pg. 70 - manuscript - 1984
A Sensible Fellow - pg. 73 - manuscript - 1984
Wearing The Collar - pg. 74 - 1985
Exactly Fine - pg. 75 - 1985
A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat - pg. 77
Another Casualty - pg. 79
My Cat, The Writer - pg. 81 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1986
5 Cats - pg. 84 - 1986
Warm Light - pg. 89
The Dream - pg. 90 - manuscript - 1990
Some Of This Place - pg. 92 - manuscript - 1990
Our Gang - pg. 95 - manuscript - 1990
Unclassical Symphony - pg. 96 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1990
War Surplus - pg. 97 - circa 1990
When Everything Seems Like Suicide Finality - pg. 100 - circa 1991
Cool Fur - pg. 103 - manuscript - 1991
Consummation - pg. 104
Tragedy? - pg. 106 - circa 1992
My Cats - pg. 109 - 1989