Charles Bukowski poem and story database
Run With the Hunted
Published in 1993 by HarperCollins (Anthology consisting mostly of previously published poems)
22,000 Dollars In 3 Months - circa 1962
3:16 And One Half
8 Count
A Fan Letter
A Free 25 Page Booklet
A Horse With Greenblue Eyes - 1975
A Lovely Couple - manuscript - 1975
A Radio With Guts
A Wild, Fresh Wind Blowing
Air And Light And Time And Space
Alone With Everybody
Are You Drinking?
Art
Be Kind
Breakout
Cancer - manuscript - circa 1983-1990
Car Wash
Claws Of Paradise - 1975
Confession - circa 1983
Consummation Of Grief - circa 1962
Cornered
Death Wants More Death - circa 1957
Dinner, 1933
Dinosauria, We - manuscript - 1991
Dow Jones: Down - circa 1959
Eat Your Heart Out
Face Of A Political Candidate On A Street Billboard - circa 1974
Fire Station (For Jane, With Love) - circa 1967
Flophouse
For Jane - 1962
For Jane: With All The Love I Had, Which Was Not Enough - 1962
Friendly Advice To A Lot Of Young Men
Funhouse
Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window - circa 1971
Helping The Old
His Wife, The Painter - circa 1959
Hot - circa 1966
Hug The Dark
I Made A Mistake - 1976
I Taste The Ashes Of Your Death - circa 1959
I'm In Love
Ice For The Eagles - circa 1964
If We Take - circa 1972
Ill
John Dillinger And Le Chasseur Maudit
Junk
Layover - circa 1956
Liberty - 1976
Like A Flower In The Rain
Love Poem To A Stripper - 1985
Luck
Marina
Metamorphosis
My First Computer Poem
My Groupie - manuscript - circa 1975
My Old Man - 1975
Nirvana
No. 6 - circa 1965
Notes Upon The Flaxen Aspect - circa 1972
On Going Out To Get The Mail - circa 1965
One For Old Snaggle-Tooth - 1976
One For The Shoeshine Man
Peace - circa 1991
Poem For Lost Dogs
Poem For Personnel Managers - circa 1957
Poetry Contest - circa 1990
Prayer In Bad Weather - 1976
Putrefaction - manuscript - 1985
Rags, Bottles, Sacks - manuscript - circa 1991-1994
Sandra
Short Order
Somebody
Spring Swan - circa 1958-1964
The Blackbirds Are Rough Today
The Bluebird
The Burning Of The Dream - manuscript - 1986
The Creative Act
The Day I Kicked Away A Bankroll
The Death Of The Father
The Genius
The Genius Of The Crowd - 1966
The Happy Life Of The Tired
The Last Days Of The Suicide Kid
The Loser - circa 1960
The Mockingbird - 1971
The Most
The Night I Was Going To Die
The Night They Took Whitey - circa 1964
The Orderly
The Poetry Reading - circa 1970
The Proud Thin Dying - circa 1975
The Shoelace - circa 1971
The Shower - 1971
The Soldier, His Wife And The Bum
The Strangest Sight You Ever Did See - 1974
The Strongest Of The Strange
The Tragedy Of The Leaves - circa 1960
The Trashmen - circa 1970
The World's Greatest Loser
The Worst And The Best - 1975
This - circa 1991
Trashcan Lives
Trollius And Trellises - circa 1988
Waiting
We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain
We, The Artists
Who In The Hell Is Tom Jones? - 1975
Young In New Orleans
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