Charles Bukowski poem and story database

A Bukowski Sampler

Published in 1969 by Quixote Press

A Rambling Essay On Poetics And The Bleeding Life Written While Drinking A Six-Pack (Tall) - pg. 9 - circa 1965
I Cannot Stand Tears - pg. 25 - circa 1958
The Tragedy Of The Leaves - pg. 25 - circa 1960
To The Whore Who Took My Poems - pg. 26 - circa 1960
The Life Of Borodin - pg. 27 - circa 1958
The State Of World Affairs From A 3rd Floor Window - pg. 27 - circa 1960
No Charge - pg. 28 - circa 1959
A Literary Romance - pg. 29 - circa 1961
The Day It Rained At The Los Angeles County Museum - pg. 30 - circa 1959
The Race - pg. 31
The House - pg. 32 - circa 1963
Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs - pg. 34 - circa 1961
The Priest And The Matador - pg. 34 - circa 1961
Old Man, Dead In A Room - pg. 36 - circa 1961
3:30 A.M. Conversation - pg. 37 - circa 1961
I Am Visited By An Editor And A Poet - pg. 38 - circa 1961
Hello, Willie Shoemaker - pg. 39 - circa 1960
The Best Way To Get Famous Is To Run Away - pg. 41 - circa 1961
Conversation In A Cheap Room - pg. 42 - circa 1960
The Day I Kicked A Bankroll Out The Window - pg. 43 - circa 1959
The Loser - pg. 45 - circa 1960
When Hugo Wolf Went Mad - pg. 45 - circa 1959
What Seems To Be The Trouble, Gentlemen? - pg. 46 - circa 1962
Thank God For Alleys - pg. 47
Experience - pg. 48 - circa 1963
I Have Lived In England - pg. 49 - circa 1961
Layover - pg. 50 - circa 1956
The Hairy Hairy Fist, And Love Will Die - pg. 50 - circa 1966
Beerbottle - pg. 54
Red And Gold Paint - pg. 55
I Met A Genius - pg. 56 - circa 1967
Poverty - pg. 56
The Genius Of The Crowd - pg. 57 - 1966
I Think Of Mice Cooling It - pg. 60 - circa 1965
View From The Screen - pg. 61 - circa 1965
Sing To Gods Or Kangaroos - pg. 62 - circa 1965
When The Berry Bush Dies I'll Swim Down The Green River With My Hair On Fire - pg. 63 - circa 1965
Fuzz - pg. 64 - circa 1965
Seahorse - pg. 65 - circa 1965
Mama - pg. 66 - circa 1965
Machineguns, Towers And Timeclocks - pg. 67 - circa 1965
Good Morning, Brother, How Are You? - pg. 69 - circa 1965
Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks And You - pg. 70 - 1964
Don't Come Around But If You Do - pg. 74 - circa 1965
Farewell, Foolish Objects - pg. 75 - circa 1964