Charles Bukowski manuscripts

Uncollected poems and stories
Poems and stories that were not published in Black Sparrow or Ecco books, but may have been published in literary magazines.
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1962
The Damnation of Recognition
THE DEATH OF A BEE IN THE GRASS ALONG MARIPOSA AVENUE:
1963
9-23-63
1964
TO THE ACADEMIANS, AND THOSE FIRST BOX FRONT, OPERA:
1965
HOW LONG DOES LOVE STAY GREEN? (as long as the money lasts)
1966
DUST SUDS DUST DISERATJACJBKII? DISERTATION....
REST YOU MERRY GENTLEMEN AND REST YOU MERRY WHORES AND LET THE LAMPLIGHTS LIGHT--
the dancer
1968
THE DROWNING OF THE ANTS
toy christ
1970
Ice
ROLLED AGAIN
THE PALMLEAVES OF CALIFORNIA
style
the scene
EARLY MORNING BEER AND NOT MUCH ELSE:
TO A GIRL IN MARCH WIND WITH NYLON PURE WONDERMENT OF THIGH CALVE AND KNEE:
BABY NEEDS A NEW CASTLE IN SWITZERLAND
1926 Dodge, Tijuana
Poem to Yevtushenko:
poem for an x-bank clerk
that liberating movement
DOOM LIKE THOSE LARGE RED LIGHTS YOU SUDDENLY SEE IN THE OVERHEAD MIRROR...
BEER AND CIGARS (via telephone)
graditude
rat poison
?
horse from hell
1971
a need for glue
DOWN ON THE ROW
old age
the game-players
Poem for an Errand Boy in the Year 1941
Venice, Calif.
crowds
a very dramatic man
1972
A WELL-KNOWN POET AND MYSELF
the creation of the morning line
[untitled]
on the sidewalks and in the sun
the gigolo
moons of honey drown the lark hahaha
Crime and Punishment
the triangle
there's people in places where snow lives
round trip (for T.H.)
yes, yes
200 yards from the surf
a great man speaks of great men
a critic
Robinson Jeffers and Love
my hump-backed laughing soul
the reason:
piss
1973
DRUNK AND LISTENING TO SOME ENGLISH MARCHES ON THE RADIO WHILE FAR AWAY FROM YOU:
THE ARCADE ROOM
panties
no bra, no panties...
something about a cat
it will come on padded feet carrying roses, wine and the yellow pages in its mouth:
Vegetables
the lambs of laughter
overtime
did you ever think about that?
1974
the boy in red for a 20
a fair evening
dig me a ditch
advice
mice
all you need
a confession
the midnight dip
rubber
WHILE SITTING IN A BAR ON SUNSET BOULEVARD
help wanted
mother
teeth
where are you?
how good sleep is before having to walk down any street--
the sun itself, I guess, is the only thing that doesn't need the love of luck--
August
let's be original
my ol' drinking buddies...
cloud 9
A Song to the Glorious Lonely
Pizza
pizza
Hitler's mama
feed time
1975
song of the flies
whiskey sour
bet too early in the 9th
blood
over a beer
drooling madness at st. liz:
46 and 9/10's
lovlie
in all fairness
tables
the famous man
haul ass wonder woman
thoughts on an evening when grey walls breathe and huff
you back in the ninth row, let me tell you something
rip-tide
the lady poetess with long blond hair and long silver gown, standing tall and explaining to her audience how the muse CAME
the lady's man
constitutional rights
A NOTE UPON A WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR WITH TINY HAIRS UNDER HIS CHIN
PRIMAL SCREAM
the great film director
my lucky friend
I watch these thin-hoofed beasts
to the soul-seekers
airplane spin
One for the Jag
the fathead
beer
JONES
out on the branch
one for R.O.
garter belt
the famous poet
the genius
Ezra's pretty tough
chauv poem
IT'S ALL A MATTER OF ENTERTAINMENT
entertainment
the good guy
o.d.
murder
figs
the hallelujah chorus
1976
January 1976
white like snow
darling
skin coloring
life off hollywood and western
the death kiss
shit sometimes it gets so lonely that I can't even commit suicide
for me
the poem of the empty bed
the fortune teller
the death-trend
stravinsky on a saturday night at 7:18 p.m.
for linda
poet and poetess...
bathtub
she wrote me
1977
two men at the track
a lazy afternoon
professional counseling
best bet
uggh...
how ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?
a matter of size
a good show
these same walls
I do it while thinking about things
a note upon waste
the old quarterback
sam the mailman
a shooting
the firing of the canons
a most serious fellow
trainer's instructions
o, the literary life!
we're all so wanted
shopping list
unleaded
plate glass window
and my mother had a nice umbrella
I been workin' on the railroad just to pass the time away
the whores, the people at taco stands, the bus drivers, the cops, the killers, the janitors, the highschool teachers, the priests and the garbagemen...
ow
the finish of Moby Dick
Venice, California, November 1977
this is an unhappy poem for your aunt Mary
Scarlet
hotel Felix
a fact
I drove her to the food stamp place and I had a hamburger while I waited and after a while we walked around and then
legs
1978
TRAFFIC AND SAFE DRIVING RULES
hooked in H
winter meeting
have a nice day
women at my dresser mirror
the way
coming and going
time off
craft
a member of the jury
there was always the danger of men who originally wrote things down well of becoming professional writers--
my instructor
5000 dollars
so I got out the AE-1
Good Friday
the playboy of the Western world leaves the field to those who desire it--
I've looked everywhere for the can opener
the E was all right
a big one
death of the toteboards, Hollywood Park, April 21, 1978
chilled
I.U.(C).D.
travertine
trouble in the ghetto
last try
the girls are gone
mosquito
mouth
N.Y. Times
telephone
tank jobs
sad letters from up North
have a nice day
pretty boy
...a big Thursday night at Hollywood and Western...::
De Luxe
1984
clown poem
hop, skip and jump
just a touch of mox
reality
1979
he likes to be alone
eating the father
nice and brown
the alter boy
bad day
the alien
the 9 horse
the piano player
of course
one for the gang
success
parts dept.
trouble
me and Pound's girlfriend
your move
the girls
the drowning of the id
jam
with a flagpole over the San Pedro Harbor
1980
if you don't know where it's at stay where you are
comrade
helping friends
don't save me
ladies talking on the telephone
dear friends
quits
quits
quits
only the dragging of time like a dry turd being pulled by a string...
a horror poem
1981
forget your writing class, get on your writing ass
dim love down low
tv is getting better
the night I broke away from Hemingway
WRONG WAY
don't worry about dying
knowing all along that you're not the only one to think like this
jung cats
purple
about a correspondence
how was your childhood?
kitchen floor poem
renewal
renewal
Two Ton
1982
a mention of some lucky pay-offs
the train station
slow night
men without women, per Hemingway
405 South
hands
men without women
men without women
a statement upon the journey
it only gets pleasant when you don't think too much
a lady with some French wine
a poem about a lady with a red face and long blonde hair
hard night, hard times, useless hard
the writer
hard night
the death of paris and many things
the old big time
getting ready for a summer tan as suicides mount in Delaware
joy ride
she goes for the spin-off
the unhappy woman
to the last one
six weeks
the pelicans
the alcoholic
problems
about the french movie director
save the trees
1983
poem from down under
lost in the various hinterlands
don't play it again sam
he left
like it was waiting
a hot sweaty day in August
a split
i'll take it all
the pack
Dear Mr. Chinaski
some night
it's fundamental
shop talk
for a man who walks around my typewriter very often
eunuch
it's no mystery
killed by a bad poem
the bookcase
1984
the luck of the blessed
greetings
overheard at the track
you've got to fall up to get down
note upon our very drab affair
the personal license plate
loud of voice and way
vulgarity
dear editor
living with the living dead
is that your bicycle out there beneath the shade trees?
working out on the hot brick road
this is free take it and feel better
fire within the cesspool
see ending
he's probably ripping and tearing in hell right now...
for my better readers
in 1941
1985
in and out of the dark
oh, it's important
last a.m. poem
this is the real review
self-edit
yes
all you guys
cohorts of the hoof
the great wine-maker
huh?
London Bridges
the mirage
who's who in america
yeah
here it is
a gentle alcoholic night
filling an order
it's all out the window...
siege
it's all right dont lay any guilt on me
spinning the ribbon
huzza
the flower of zero
listening to my buddy at the factory
wild
B L O C K
down to it
more than the blues
looking out the plate glass window of this train
hustling against the twilight
untitled
culture
hot night
the slob
the way it is
I pour a drink and toast the love of my luck
so cheer up
the mutilation of the species
modern age insomnia
the luck of the way
1986
on fame
the walls are beautiful, the people are not
goodbye
nothing's free, not even the sun...
from #47695
maintaining
my critics
BUKOWSKI
alphabet of an alcoholic
no good
dirty poem
a consideration of the structure------
the melt-down
near Nirvana
i am giving away the prize
listen, let me tell you of olden days
full circle
dead
no chance
the winner
false praise
switching
immobile
pardon me you got some light
upon our location
a poem that doesn't work but one that I still keep playing with like a cat with a toy mouse that won't become alive
1989
battle call
the knife
the smallest of talk
credo
definition
some kind of nut
without fail
the big three
1990
I am a true mole
the movies
the fix
defect
a question
a lot of nothing
everything hurts to the edge of goodness
to consider where we are in this low-moulded clamp
please
the gravel of sunlight
perfect
accepted
Liszts
please
yes
bad night
sewing machine needle
fat boy
inside and outside
nothing
yes
hey, Pablo
25 cents worth
The National Endowment for the Farts
visitation
a startling sight
there are no great men or women
insanity is the weakness of the will, gone begging
prelude
the interviewer
the hit parade is a hit
the subway
the redemption, the glory and the act
when the hunter hunts himself
me and Faulkner
farewell
sitting with the drunks
what makes?
hell
more than cheers
the wine poems
note in and from a bottle
Henry Miller
hurry
October 4, 1990
see here
shop talk
sights to see:
the merciless nights
the movies
turtle
ahhhhhh.....
bar
8 count and up
the cork thing
I am a true mole
being too young
I'm buying
while listening to a piano concerto by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
8 count and up
Chinaski: skewered
death is a good thing
office supplies
mailbag
the Death-Hole
making it
pardon me
the editor asked
when I consider
flux
party girl
seven come eleven
the human sacrifices
feeding the chickens and you
in with the boys
zero minus zero minus zero minus
1991
in search of the hero
laugh a minute
living in a great big way
8 count
slow learner
note from hell in the mailbox
one more day
baseball
coming out from under the
pause before the counter attack
the posers like to use:
hanging there
preparation hell
a member of the tribe
genius by the shore
1992
poem for my 72nd birthday, if I get there
how it's done
the old man moves toward the bedroom
on drinking
dry
am i the only one
somniloquy
hey, buddy, let's deal
last poem of the night
way without end
wise
killing time
faulkner
tonight
chinaski in the tar pits
well, when you can't write a poem
the lost part
notice
remember
notice
a moment
notice
all there is
notice
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days without charm
organ play
crawling toward winter
down by the shore
life people you and the purple dog which has nothing to do with any of this
the gamblers
bless my greasy forehead
business administration
big deal
you are and aren't
poverty
spit out and falling
1994
party