Charles Bukowski poem and story database

On Love

Published in 2016 by Ecco

Mine - pg. 1 - circa 1957
Layover - pg. 2 - circa 1956
The Day I Kicked A Bankroll Out The Window - pg. 3 - circa 1959
I Taste The Ashes Of Your Death - pg. 6 - circa 1959
Love Is A Piece Of Paper Torn To Bits - pg. 7 - circa 1959
To The Whore Who Took My Poems - pg. 8 - circa 1960
Shoes - pg. 9 - circa 1961
A Real Thing, A Good Woman - pg. 10 - circa 1961
One Night Stand - pg. 11 - 1961
The Mischief Of Expiration - pg. 13 - 1962
Love Is A Form Of Selfishness - pg. 14 - circa 1962
For Jane: With All The Love I Had, Which Was Not Enough - pg. 16 - 1962
For Jane - pg. 18 - 1962
Notice - pg. 20 - circa 1963
My Real Love In Athens - pg. 21 - circa 1964
Sleeping Woman - pg. 25
A Party Here - Machineguns, Tanks, An Army Fighting Against Men On Rooftops - pg. 27 - 1965
For The 18 Months Of Marina Louise - pg. 32 - 1965
Poem For My Daughter - pg. 34 - circa 1966
Answer To A Note Found In The Mailbox - pg. 37 - circa 1967
All the Love of Me Goes Out to Her (for A.M.) - pg. 39 - manuscript - 1969
To A Critic Of Sorts - pg. 41
The Shower - pg. 42 - 1971
2 Carnations - pg. 44 - 1971
Have You Ever Kissed A Panther? - pg. 45 - 1971
The Best Love Poem I Can Write at the Moment - pg. 47 - 1971
Balling - pg. 50 - 1971
Hot - pg. 52 - circa 1973
Smiling, Shining, Singing - pg. 55 - 1972
Visit To Venice - pg. 57 - circa 1978
Love Poem To Marina - pg. 59
I Can Hear The Sound Of Human Lives Being Ripped To Pieces - pg. 61 - circa 1978
For Those 3 - pg. 63
Blue Moon, Oh Bleweeww Mooooon How I Adore You! - pg. 64 - manuscript - 1974
First Love - pg. 65 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1974
The First Love - pg. 65 - manuscript - 1974
Love - pg. 68 - manuscript - 1974
Raw With Love (For N.W.) - pg. 77 - 1974
A Love Poem For All The Women I Have Known - pg. 79 - manuscript - 1974
Fax - pg. 82 - 1975
One For The Shoeshine Man - pg. 83
Who In The Hell Is Tom Jones? - pg. 87 - 1975
Sitting In A Sandwich Joint Just Off The Freeway - pg. 89 - 1975
A Definition - pg. 91 - 1975
An Acceptance Slip - pg. 95 - 1975
The End Of A Short Affair - pg. 98 - 1976
One For Old Snaggle-Tooth - pg. 101 - 1976
Prayer For A Whore In Bad Weather - pg. 103 - 1976
I Made A Mistake - pg. 106 - 1976
The 6 Foot Goddess - pg. 108 - 1976
Quiet Clean Girls In Gingham Dresses - pg. 111 - 1976
Tonight - pg. 113 - manuscript - 1976
Pacific Telephone - pg. 114 - manuscript - 1976
Hunchback - pg. 116 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1976
Mermaid - pg. 118 - 1977
Yes - pg. 119 - manuscript - 1977
2nd. Street, Near Hollister, In Santa Monica - pg. 122 - manuscript - 1977
The Trashing Of The Dildo - pg. 123 - 1978
A Place To Relax - pg. 126 - manuscript - 1979
Snap Snap - pg. 128 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1979
For The Little One - pg. 130 - 1980
Hello, Barbara - pg. 132 - 1977
Carson McCullers - pg. 136 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1981
Jane and Droll - pg. 138 - manuscript - 1981
We Get Along - pg. 140 - 1982
It Was All Right - pg. 142 - manuscript - 1983
My Walls Of Love - pg. 145 - manuscript - 1983
Eulogy To A Hell Of A Dame - pg. 147 - 1983
Love - pg. 149 - manuscript - 1984
Eulogy - pg. 151 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1984
40 Years Ago In That Hotel Room - pg. 154 - 1984
A Magician, Gone - pg. 159 - manuscript - 1984
No Luck For That - pg. 163 - 1985
Love Poem To A Stripper - pg. 164 - 1985
Love Crushed Like A Dead Fly - pg. 166 - manuscript - 1985
Shoes - pg. 173 - 1985
Pulled Down Shade - pg. 174 - 1986
Trollius And Trellises - pg. 178 - circa 1988
Turn - pg. 183 - circa 1989
Oh, I Was A Ladies Man! - pg. 185 - circa 1989
Love Poem - pg. 190 - manuscript - 1990
A Dog - pg. 191 - circa 1991
The Strong Man - pg. 194 - 1991
The Bluebird - pg. 200
The Dressmaker - pg. 202 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - circa 1991-1994 - circa 1993
Confessions - pg. 205 - circa 1993