Charles Bukowski poem and story database

Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Published in 1972 by Black Sparrow Press

A Free 25 Page Booklet - pg. 11
The Smoking Car - pg. 13
The World's Greatest Loser - pg. 14
The Garbageman - pg. 16 - circa 1971
Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window - pg. 17 - circa 1971
Moyamensing Prison - pg. 18 - circa 1966
Notes Upon The Flaxen Aspect - pg. 19 - circa 1972
Funhouse - pg. 20
Another Academy - pg. 21 - circa 1970
A Day At The Oak Tree Meet - pg. 23 - circa 1972
The Colored Birds - pg. 23
Rain - pg. 25
Another Lousy 10 Percenter - pg. 28
Making It - pg. 29 - circa 1971
Drunk 'Ol Bukowski Drunk - pg. 30 - 1971
The Poetry Reading - pg. 31 - circa 1970
Slim Killers - pg. 33
The Last Days Of The Suicide Kid - pg. 35
Bang Bang - pg. 37
5 Men In Black Passing My Window - pg. 38
The Poet's Muse - pg. 39
Somebody - pg. 40
Story And Poem - pg. 41
And The Moon And The Stars And The World - pg. 42
Get The Nose - pg. 43 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1968
My Landlady And My Landlord - pg. 44 - 1972
Bad Night - pg. 46
Hogs In The Sky - pg. 48
The White Poets - pg. 50
The Black Poets - pg. 52
Millionaires - pg. 54
Poetry - pg. 55
The Painter - pg. 57
The Inquisitor - pg. 58
My Friend William - pg. 59
300 Poems - pg. 60
Lifting Weights At 2 A.M. - pg. 62
Reality - pg. 63
Earthquake - pg. 64
The Good Life At O'Hare Airport - pg. 65 - circa 1971
The Golfers - pg. 67 - 1970
The Mockingbird - pg. 71 - 1971
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, Ha Ha - pg. 72 - circa 1971
A Fine Day And The World Looks Good - pg. 73 - circa 1966
Vacancy - pg. 76
3:16 And One Half - pg. 77
The Rat - pg. 78
Hot - pg. 80 - circa 1966
Radio - pg. 81
Ariel - pg. 82 - circa 1958-1964
The Passing Of A Dark Gray Moment - pg. 83 - circa 1962
Consummation Of Grief - pg. 85 - circa 1962
Those Sons Of Bitches - pg. 86 - circa 1970
The Hunt - pg. 87
The Big Fire - pg. 88 - circa 1971
WW 2 - pg. 91 - circa 1962
Ants - pg. 100
He Wrote In Lonely Blood - pg. 102 - circa 1972
Six Chink Fishermen - pg. 104 - circa 1968
Burning - pg. 105 - circa 1972
A Sound In The Brush - pg. 107 - circa 1972
The Wild - pg. 108
4th Of July - pg. 109
Carnival - pg. 110
99 Degrees - pg. 111
Happy New Year - pg. 113
The Shoelace - pg. 114 - circa 1971
Chilled Green - pg. 117
Life - pg. 118
American Matador - pg. 121
I Saw An Old-Fashioned Whore Today - pg. 122 - circa 1972
Poem For Barbara, Poem For Jane - pg. 123
Short Order - pg. 125
The Dwarf - pg. 126
Merry Christmas - pg. 127
Marina - pg. 132
One With Dante - pg. 133
An Interesting Night - pg. 134 - circa 1970
A Threat To My Immortality - pg. 136 - circa 1971
Climax - pg. 137
A Man's Woman - pg. 138
Tight Pink Dress - pg. 139
More Or Less, For Julie - pg. 140 - circa 1969
This Is The Way It Goes And Goes And Goes "All Your Writing About Pain And Suffering Is A Bunch Of Bullshit" - pg. 141
Left With The Dog - pg. 142
Praying For A Best Seller - pg. 144
That One - pg. 145 - manuscript (differs from Black Sparrow book version) - 1971 - circa 1971
Have You Ever Kissed A Panther? - pg. 146 - 1971
2 Carnations - pg. 147 - 1971
Man And Woman In Bed At Ten P.M. - pg. 148 - 1970
The Answer - pg. 149
A Split - pg. 151 - 1983
Power Failure - pg. 153 - circa 1972
Snake In The Watermelon - pg. 155
Style - pg. 156 - circa 1972
The Shower - pg. 157 - 1971
If We Take - pg. 159 - circa 1972