Charles Bukowski manuscripts

Bukowski manuscript

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

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