Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Love is a Dog From Hell

Published in 1977 by Black Sparrow Press

I've Seen Too Many Glazed-Eyed Bums - pg. 2
For Al - pg. 9 - 1976
The Insane Always Loved Me - pg. 14 - 1975
Sandra - pg. 15
Yellow Cab - pg. 15
99 To One - pg. 16
You - pg. 17 - 1975
Longshot - pg. 18 - 1976
The 6 Foot Goddess - pg. 18 - 1976
I Made A Mistake - pg. 20 - 1976
Sexpot - pg. 21
The Girl On The Bus Stop Bench - pg. 22 - 1976
Sweet Music - pg. 23 - 1975
Numb Your Ass And Your Brain And Your Heart - pg. 24 - 1975
Doom And Siesta Time - pg. 25 - 1975
One Of The Hottest - pg. 26 - 1975
Ashes - pg. 27 - 1976
Shit Time - pg. 28
Fuck - pg. 29
About Cranes - pg. 30
Me - pg. 31 - circa 1972
Another Bed - pg. 33 - 1976
Trapped - pg. 35 - manuscript - 1976
Tonight - pg. 36 - manuscript - 1976
The Escape - pg. 37
The Drill - pg. 38 - circa 1974
Texan - pg. 39
The Spider - pg. 41
The End Of A Short Affair - pg. 43 - 1976
Moaning And Groaning - pg. 46
An Almost Made Up Poem - pg. 47
Blue Cheese And Chili Peppers - pg. 49 - circa 1974
Problems About The Other Woman - pg. 51 - circa 1975
T.M. - pg. 53 - 1976
Bee's 5th - pg. 55 - 1974
103 Degrees - pg. 57 - 1976
Pacific Telephone - pg. 59 - manuscript - 1976
225 Pounds - pg. 61 - 1976
Turnabout - pg. 63
One For Old Snaggle-Tooth - pg. 65 - 1976
Communion - pg. 67 - manuscript - 1976
Trying To Get Even - pg. 69
Chicago - pg. 72 - 1975
Quiet Clean Girls In Gingham Dresses - pg. 74 - 1976
We Will Taste The Islands And The Sea - pg. 76
This Poet - pg. 79
Winter - pg. 81 - 1975
What They Want - pg. 82
Iron Mike - pg. 83 - 1975
Guru - pg. 85 - 1977
The Professors - pg. 88 - 1975
How To Be A Great Writer - pg. 92 - 1976
The Price - pg. 95 - 1975
Alone With Everybody - pg. 97
The 2nd Novel - pg. 99 - manuscript - 1975
Chopin Bukowski - pg. 101 - 1975
Gloomy Lady - pg. 103
Cockroach - pg. 105 - manuscript - 1975
Who In The Hell Is Tom Jones? - pg. 106 - 1975
Defeat - pg. 108
Traffic Signals - pg. 109 - manuscript - 1976
462-0614 - pg. 111 - circa 1976
Photographs - pg. 113
Social - pg. 115 - manuscript - 1976
One To The Breastplate - pg. 117
The Worst And The Best - pg. 119 - 1975
Coupons - pg. 121 - 1976
Luck - pg. 122
Dog - pg. 123
Trench Warfare - pg. 124 - 1975
The Night I Fucked My Alarm Clock - pg. 127
When I Think Of Myself Dead - pg. 128
Christmas Eve, Alone - pg. 129 - 1973
There Once Was Woman Who Put Her Head Into An Oven - pg. 131 - 1976
Beds, Toilets, You And Me - pg. 132 - manuscript - 1976
This Then - pg. 134 - 1976
Imagination And Reality - pg. 135 - 1975
Stolen - pg. 137 - 1975
The Meek Have Inherited - pg. 139 - 1975
Big Max - pg. 142
It's The Way You Play The Game - pg. 145
On The Continent - pg. 146 - 1975
12:18 A.M. - pg. 148
How Come You're Not Unlisted? - pg. 152 - 1976
Weather Report - pg. 154 - circa 1975
Clean Old Man - pg. 155 - 1975
Something - pg. 156
A Plate Glass Window - pg. 157 - 1975
Junkies - pg. 159 - 1975
The Crunch - pg. 162 - circa 1977
A Horse With Greenblue Eyes - pg. 165 - 1975
Scarlet - pg. 169
Red Up And Down - pg. 171
Like A Flower In The Rain - pg. 173
Light Brown - pg. 175 - 1976
Huge Ear Rings - pg. 176 - manuscript - 1976
She Came Out Of The Bathroom - pg. 178 - 1976
A Killer - pg. 179
The Promise - pg. 182 - 1976
Waving And Waving Goodbye - pg. 184 - 1976
Liberty - pg. 186 - 1976
Don't Touch The Girls - pg. 187 - 1976
Dark Shades - pg. 189
Prayer In Bad Weather - pg. 191 - 1976
Melancholia - pg. 193 - 1976
A Stethoscope Case - pg. 195 - 1976
Eat Your Heart Out - pg. 196
The Retreat - pg. 198 - 1976
Girls In Pantyhose - pg. 203 - 1975
Up Your Yellow River - pg. 205
Artists - pg. 206
I Have Shit Stains In My Underwear Too - pg. 209
Hawley's Leaving Town - pg. 210 - manuscript - 1975
An Unkind Poem - pg. 212 - manuscript - 1976
The Bee - pg. 214 - 1976
The Most - pg. 216
Ah - pg. 218 - 1976
I'm Getting Back To Where I Was - pg. 222 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1975
A Lovely Couple - pg. 223 - manuscript - 1975
The Strangest Sight You Ever Did See - pg. 225 - 1974
In A Neighborhood Of Murder - pg. 227
Private First Class - pg. 228 - 1974
Love Is A Dog From Hell - pg. 229
My Groupie - pg. 231 - manuscript - circa 1975
Now, If You Were Teaching Creative Writing - pg. 233 - 1975
The Good Life - pg. 235 - 1975
The Greek - pg. 237
My Comrades - pg. 239 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1973
Soul - pg. 241 - circa 1974
A Change Of Habit - pg. 243 - 1974
$$$$$$ - pg. 245
Sitting In A Sandwich Joint - pg. 249 - 1975
As Crazy As I Ever Was - pg. 252 - 1976
Sex - pg. 254 - 1976
Dead Now - pg. 255 - 1976
Twins - pg. 257 - 1976
The Place Didn't Look Bad - pg. 259 - 1975
The Little Girls - pg. 260 - manuscript - 1975
Rain Or Shine - pg. 262 - 1975
Cold Plums - pg. 263 - 1974
Girls Coming Home - pg. 265 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1972
Some Picnic - pg. 267
Bedpans - pg. 269 - manuscript - 1976
The Good Loser - pg. 272 - 1975
An Art - pg. 274 - 1975
The Girls At The Green Hotel - pg. 276 - 1975
A Good One - pg. 278 - 1975
Madness - pg. 282 - 1976
A 56 Year Old Poem - pg. 284
The Beautiful Young Girl Walking Past The Graveyard - pg. 286 - 1976
Beer - pg. 288 - 1976
Artist - pg. 290
My Old Man - pg. 292 - 1975
Fear - pg. 295 - 1976
Little Tigers Everywhere - pg. 297 - manuscript - 1975
After The Reading - pg. 299 - manuscript - 1975
A Gold Pocket Watch - pg. 302 - 1975
Beach Trip - pg. 303
One For The Shoeshine Man - pg. 305