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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BUKOWSKI, CHARLES Matches Found: 1737 Bukowski, Charles Poet's Biography 1737 poems available by this author $$$$$$ First Line: I've always had trouble with %money Last Line: Outside %it continued to %rain $100 First Line: The old woman with the dog Last Line: Than those of any woman I have %ever known $15 BOY AND A $1500 CASKET First Line: We can get you a nice boy with Last Line: Else, which is the kindest way for %all of us $180 GONE First Line: Lost my ass at the races Last Line: Looking at the walls 103 DEGREES First Line: She cut my toenails the night before Last Line: What the fuck 12 HOUR NIGHT First Line: I found myself in middle age Last Line: And it still is 12 MINUTES TO POST First Line: As we stand there before the purple mountains Last Line: So much more beautiful than %our lives 12/24/1978 First Line: I suck on this beer Last Line: The ambulances sing to each %other outside 12:18 A.M. First Line: Beheaded in the middle of the Last Line: Get between the sheets and %can't sleep 13TH MONTH First Line: In the november of our hell Last Line: What month %what time %what 16 JAP MACHINE GUN BULLETS First Line: Norman %jimmy Last Line: No time at %all 16-BIT INTEL 8088 CHIP First Line: With an apple macintosh 1813-1883 First Line: Listening to wagner 191 First Line: The doorbell rang and monty went to the door, opened. It was 9 p.M. Last Line: Celebration for the mindless. Harry pressed down on the accelerator %and moved toward the moon 1990 SPECIAL Poem Text First Line: Year-worn Subject(s): Death; Cats; Dead, The 2 BUDDIES First Line: I am not sure of our exact ages %when we met Last Line: I never saw red's mother cooking anything 2 FLIES First Line: The flies are angry bits of Last Line: It is late %for both of us 2 HORSE COLLARS First Line: I'm hot now, he said Last Line: And that's more important than %.364 2 P.M.BEER First Line: Nothing matters %but flopping on a mattress Last Line: Propped up %to die 20 BUCKS First Line: He was famous in his time Last Line: Now %he's hiding 225 POUNDS First Line: We were in bed and Last Line: Really watching the news. I accepted her that %way 2347 DUANE First Line: There's this blue baby and she's sucking Last Line: Window, and that mattress near the door 2ND NOVEL First Line: They'd come around and Last Line: Won't come to my door %anymore %it's nice 3 A.M. GAMES First Line: The worst thing is 3 BLACKS First Line: It's midway through the card at the track Last Line: Don't blame the %car 3 OLD MEN AT SEPARATE TABLES First Line: I am %one of them Last Line: Nothing else matters so %sweetly now 340 DOLLAR HORSE AND A HUNDRED DOLLAR WHORE First Line: Don't ever get the idea that I am a poet; you can see me Last Line: Who wrote this poem 38,000-TO-ONE First Line: It was during a reading at the university of utah Last Line: Something to something 4 CHRISTS First Line: When I went up to santa cruz to read Last Line: I an the judas %among us 40 CIGARETTES First Line: I smoked 2 packs of cigarettes today and Last Line: Now? And I'm the one who's scared 40,000 First Line: Now %at the track today Last Line: I decide to stay for %one more %race 40,000 FLIES First Line: Torn by a temporary wind Last Line: And so hard to be %a man 462-0614 First Line: I get many phonecalls now Last Line: That's why my number's %listed 5 DOLLARS First Line: I am dyhing of sadness and alcohol Last Line: Is that what all that noise is, I said %my god shit 56 YEAR OLD POEM First Line: I went with two ladies Last Line: I'm sure it's a giant %con 59 CENTS A POUND First Line: I like to prowl ordinary places Last Line: But we have %won 6 FOOT GODDESS First Line: I'm big Last Line: From everything that is %not here 60 YARD PASS First Line: Most people don't do very well and I get discouraged with Last Line: This fucking city %right now 75 MILLION DOLLARS First Line: There's picasso %and now he's gone Last Line: 75 million dollars 7TH RACE WHEN THE ANGELS SWUNG LOW AND BURNED First Line: I watched the board and the 6 dropped to 9 Last Line: And I finished my drink %and walked away 8 COUNT First Line: From my bed Last Line: Let you %know %fucker 8 COUNT First Line: This one %always arrives at the wrong time Last Line: Knock upon the %door 8 COUNT CONCERTO First Line: The lid to the great jar Last Line: Or else we'd all %go mad 8 ROOMS First Line: My dentist is a drunk Last Line: But she never told me her %name 99 TO ONE First Line: The blazing shark Last Line: But break like a horse out of the gate A NOT SO GOOD NIGHT IN THE SAN PEDRO OF THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: It is unlikely that a decent poem is in me tonight ABOUT A TRIP TO SPAIN First Line: In new york in those days they had Last Line: But you're the real winner forever ABOUT CRANES First Line: Sometimes after you get your Last Line: Besides %stand on one leg ABOUT PAIN First Line: My first and only wife Last Line: Such things usually %begin %somewhere ABOUT THE PEN CONFERENCE First Line: Take a writer away from his typewriter ACCEPTED First Line: Sometimes as I am typing a Last Line: I %is never quite %sure %of %what tey are %dpooing ACTION First Line: I am upstairs in pajamas and bathrobe Last Line: I get up and go for %a bottle of %wine ACTION First Line: Henry baroyan cut between the caddy and the porsche, opened it up Last Line: The road to hell had plenty %of company but it was still so very lonely. %he pushed forward and elb ACTION First Line: He buys 5 cars a month, details them, waxes and buffs Last Line: We keep slaying our small dragons %as the big one waits Variant Title(s): The Big On ACTION ON THE CORNER First Line: A man hit a pregnant woman Last Line: Helped the pregnant woman %to her feet AFDC FOR YOU AND ME First Line: These dogs, she said, are always sticking their Last Line: Until 5 a.M. %in the morning AFRICA, PARIS, GREECE First Line: There are these 2 women Last Line: I rub the bottoms of %her feet AFTER READING A CERTAIN POET: First Line: Dark time, under the orange skin Last Line: Have your chair broken, %the shiver muscle of my heart is %amouse sick, now AFTER THE READING First Line: I've seen people in front of Last Line: A little bit behind %them AFTERNOON IN FEBRUARY First Line: Many of the paperboys here in l.A. Last Line: And the faint sound of the vacuum cleaner AGAIN First Line: Now the territory is taken Last Line: As the shadow gets ready to fall again AGE AND YOUTH First Line: I was driving over a bridge when Last Line: Feeling mighty %pleased with myself AH First Line: Drinking german beer Last Line: Still waiting on the immortal %poem AH First Line: It will never end, there will be no Last Line: Chair, laughing at it %all AH, AH, AH First Line: I suppose that what disturbs me about the sages Last Line: All the sages %all the years %wasted AIDS First Line: The easy days of sex are over Last Line: And they can damn well %have %it %all AIR AND LIGHT AND TIME AND SPACE First Line: -you know, I've either had a family, a job, something Last Line: Except maybe a longer life to find %new excuses %for ALIENS First Line: You may not believe it Last Line: There %and I am %here ALL GOD'S CHILDREN GOT TROUBLE First Line: This guy murdered his %mother-in-law Last Line: Think of that poor bastard ALL THAT First Line: The only things I remember about %new york city Last Line: And surprising painting %not hanging anywhere else ALL THE CASUALTIES... First Line: I told her then in bed Last Line: Didn't know %would %know ALL THE WAY TO THE GRAVE First Line: Tolstoy's wife was a %nag %and one bitter cold %night Last Line: Then she wrote a %book %about %what a son of a bitch %he was ALMOST MADE UP POEM First Line: I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny Last Line: It was best like this ALONE First Line: If there were only some help from the Last Line: The gods are laughing %already ALONE WITH EVERYBODY First Line: The flesh covers the bone Last Line: The graveyards fill %nothing else %fills ALWAYS First Line: The important %thing %is the obvious Last Line: Thing that %nobody %is %saying AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SUFFERS THUS? First Line: Took me 45 minutes to find my glasses Last Line: For they would not understand! AMERICAN WRITER First Line: Gone abroad %I sit under the tv lights Last Line: Fooled them %again AN ARGUMENT OVER MARSHAL FOCH Poem Text First Line: Foch was a great soldier, he said, marshal foch Last Line: I still maintain the french are weak, and no wonder Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929) AND ALL THE SNOW MELTED First Line: She was a %german girl with a figure like quicksilver Last Line: Never came back, really %any of us ANGEL AND AN ASSHOLE First Line: Each day %at the track %they make the same announcement Last Line: I looked at him and said, 'you'll %never get that way.' %theni got out of %there ANGEL WHO PUSHED HIS WHEELCHAIR First Line: Long ago he edited a little magazine Last Line: Maybe tonight I'll try to read his book ANONYMITY First Line: I never got to where I was Last Line: Telephone, both being used ANOTHER ARGUMENT First Line: She had an uncle who sniffed Last Line: Correct, we are all about to be %murdered ANOTHER BED Last Line: I haven't seen her since friday ANOTHER CASUALTY First Line: Cat got run over ANOTHER DAY First Line: Getting [or, having] the low-down blues and going into a restaurant Last Line: You start the engine ANOTHER LOVE POEM First Line: Your toenails are so long, she said, %my god Last Line: I hope the next bitch who cuts my toenails is you ANSWER First Line: Within the past six years Last Line: And you were %dead %long %before %me ANSWER TO A NOTE ON THE DRESSER First Line: The price of the sun is the tulip rotting black Last Line: And I don't give a damn if you never come back ANSWER TO AN ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENT IN PHILADELPHIA First Line: Don't worry about my poem Last Line: Much worse %than what %you read %of mine %in class APPLE First Line: This is not just an apple Last Line: And stare at a dirty %ashtray APPRENTICES First Line: He used to sit in his bedroom slippers Last Line: He was. Of course, %there's still time ARE YOU DRINKING First Line: Washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook Last Line: My cat %this %time AREA OF PAUSE First Line: You have to have it or the walls will close Last Line: Laughter, then %walk %away ARGUMENT OVER MARSHAL FOCH First Line: Foch was a great soldier, he said, marshal foch Last Line: The french aree weak %and no %wonder Subject(s): Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929) ARRANGEMENT First Line: There's a mannequin in this junk shop Last Line: Yes, my love, I will ART First Line: All the way from mexico Last Line: And the ringing of the %phone ART First Line: As the %spirit %wanes Last Line: The %form %appears ART CLASS First Line: Of course, it wasn't my idea Last Line: Plato couldn't have said it any %better ARTIST First Line: All of a sudden I'm a painter Last Line: In memory of one who %could ARTIST First Line: Look,' I say, 'you shouldn't have broken in Last Line: Better for his mother, %better for art ARTISTIC SELFISHNESS First Line: What's genius? Last Line: Crane %artaud %chinaski ARTISTS First Line: She wrote me for years Last Line: Francine du plessix gray AS CRAZY AS I EVER WAS First Line: Drunk and writing poems Last Line: Drunk and writing poems at 3:24 a.M AS MUCH AS I HATE TO USE THE 'F' WORD First Line: Maybe it's just because %I was young then Last Line: Then, I say it now: fuck %you AS THE POEMS GO First Line: As the poems increase into the thousands you Last Line: And the worst %far too much ASHES First Line: I got his ashes, she said, and I took them Last Line: Lived in san mateo and had a very good %job ASS BUT NO CLASS First Line: One time %there was rene who Last Line: That I was living %at the %moment ASSAULT First Line: Bad shape. Sick. Can hardly hold my soul together Last Line: We have just %each other AT THE END OF THE DAY First Line: A fat mexican woman in front of me Last Line: Infirmary and asks, 'what the hell happened?' AT THE SIZZLER First Line: In the middle of hell %in the middle of hell %in the hell of hell Last Line: As the world tilts to the %right %and dogs bark in my %brain AT THE ZOO First Line: Here's a male giraffe Last Line: Arranged it %for now AT VEGAS YOU HAVE TO PUT UP TWO TO GET ONE First Line: Typing in a room full of smoke Last Line: Hey baby, you all right AT&T First Line: Now, you see, %we have the buildings and Last Line: The buildings sit and %wonder and work and wait ATTACK AND RETREAT First Line: Read to them Last Line: Start in on novel # %4 AUG-93 First Line: Easy, go easy, you can't outlast the mountain Last Line: This waiting for the fullness and the %charge AVOIDING HUMANITY First Line: Much of my life has been dedicated Last Line: Especially %when I am %shaving AX AND BLADE First Line: Arriving to applause Last Line: Him and ask him why BACH Poem Text First Line: I'm / listening to a work of his Last Line: Living / friends Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians BACH First Line: I'm %listening to a work of his Last Line: I have no %living %friends Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians BACH, COME BACK First Line: Sitting in this old chair, listening to bach Last Line: No laughter %ever %again BACKUPS First Line: In this modern age of love/sex Last Line: I stare at her. %she blinks BAD ACTION First Line: I got a seat down front and started Last Line: Is worse than being in the %county jail BAD DAY First Line: The jellyfish has a purpose Last Line: Who did this to %me BAD FIX First Line: Old butch, they fixed him Last Line: Out of that huge %undefeated %head BAD FORM First Line: The famous actor sat at the table with Last Line: Drinking in their %voluptuous %normalness BAD NIGHT First Line: Monty was depressed, well, not depressed, just discouraged with Last Line: Sound of crickets and the sound of drunks trying to find their way home BAD PRESS First Line: Years ago while I was living on delongpre ave Last Line: To ravage my talents BAD TIMES AT THE 3RD AND VERMONT HOTEL First Line: Alabam was a sneak and a thief and he came to my Last Line: He looked up, stood up, went for two %glasses BAKERS OF 1935 First Line: My mother, father and I Last Line: Walked away into the afternoon BALLOONS First Line: Today they shot a guy who was Last Line: The next %nobody was BAND-AID First Line: We are destroyed by our Last Line: That's true, I told %him, good %day BAR STOOL First Line: Each day and each night were Last Line: Do you see %what I %mean? BARD OF SAN FRANCISCO First Line: Don't old poets ever Last Line: To write %decent %poetry BAROMETER First Line: When I was very young Last Line: Unjustified %horror %unmitigated BARSTOOL First Line: The longer I live the more I realize Last Line: Circled in the %tenebrous %light BATTING ORDER Poem Text First Line: Hemingway's been in a slump Last Line: And, most likely / yours Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) BATTING ORDER First Line: Hemingway's been in a slump Last Line: They're going to kick some %ass, most likely %yours Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) BATTING SLUMP First Line: The sun slides down through the shades Last Line: I got to hit one out of here pretty soon BE ALONE First Line: When you think about how often Last Line: It's the last way left BE KIND First Line: We are always asked Last Line: Wasted %lives %is BEACH TRIP First Line: The strong men Last Line: The seagulls %the sea %the sand BEANS WITH GARLIC First Line: This is important enough Last Line: Your feelings boiling over flame, %get this down BEAST First Line: My beast comes in the afternoon Last Line: And all the walls become impossible BEASTS BOUNDING THROUGH TIME First Line: Van gogh writing his brother for paints BEAUTI-FUL First Line: One poet used to take Last Line: The far-off %basket BEAUTIFUL LADY First Line: We are gathered here now Last Line: Rich %frightened %husband BEAUTIFUL LADY EDITOR First Line: She was a beautiful woman, I used to see photographs of Subject(s): Editors BEAUTIFUL RUSH First Line: I lost a dollar at the track today and I know that's Last Line: Not all of us are gamblers and those who aren't don't matter BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL WALKING PAST THE GRAVEYARD First Line: I stop my car at the signal Last Line: Nobody seems to care BEAUTY GONE First Line: You were, at best %the delicate thought of a delicate hand Last Line: The most immense thing about beauty %is finding it gone BEDPANS First Line: In the hospitals I've been in Last Line: Made %useless as %the bedpan BEDS, BATHROOMS, YOU AND ME First Line: Think of all the beds %everywhere Last Line: Or in our bathroom %any longer BEDS, TOILETS, YOU AND ME First Line: Think of the beds Last Line: Or blue %or lavender %goodbye BEE First Line: I suppose like any other boy Last Line: Because he's not even thinking %about me BEE'S 5TH First Line: I heard it first while screwing a blond Last Line: We never made love %again BEER First Line: I don't know how many bottles of beer Last Line: And beer is all there is BEER BOTTLE BLOW First Line: It was a slow night in %henry's haven Last Line: They say about %no teeth in the mouth BEERBOTTLE First Line: A very miraculous thing just happened Last Line: New shoes, less rain, more poems BEETHOVEN CONDUCTED HIS LAST SYMPHONY WHILE TOTALLY DEAF First Line: His paintings would not be as valuable now Last Line: One. This is the dirty trick %of the ages BEFORE AIDS First Line: I'm glad I got to them Last Line: Good old times %before aids BEGGARS First Line: The poor Last Line: The horses are %beautiful %anyhow BEGGING First Line: Like most of you, I've had so many jobs that Last Line: No servant of %free %enterprise BEGINNING First Line: When women stop carrying Last Line: They can talk to me %about %liberation BELFAST First Line: Writing a letter to belfast Last Line: As young wives %should %do BELLS First Line: Soon after kennedy was shot Last Line: I could still hear the bells BEST MEN ARE STRONGEST ALONE First Line: Most of the time while a man is trying to type Last Line: Pure and as perfect as the well %written line BETRAYED First Line: The big thrill Last Line: Fathers and sons %in the %other BETTING ON NOW First Line: I am old enough to have died several Last Line: The volcano and the %leopard BETTING ON THE MUSE First Line: Jimmy foxx died an alcoholic Last Line: Truly win %against %you BETWEEN RACES First Line: I know that I'm not supposed to bother Last Line: Conversation %ruin your %day BIG JOHN OF ECHO PARK First Line: His wife worked and bought his Last Line: Doesn't like to %type %too much BIG MAX First Line: In junior high school Last Line: World. It made us sick %to look at him BIG NIGHT ON THE TOWN First Line: Drunk on the dark streets of some city Last Line: Perfection in the stars %where love died %laughing BIG RIDE First Line: All right Last Line: The %sea %breaks BIG TIME First Line: I got tired of going to the bars Last Line: And these days %they do %too. %it figures BIG TIME LOSER First Line: I was on the train to del mar and I left my seat Last Line: The people in the other car knew BIRD First Line: Red - eyed and dizzy as I Last Line: And then quickly I went to sleep BIRTHAY PARTY First Line: Drinking with norman mailer %in his suite at the chateau %marmont Last Line: Tough guys drive black %bmw's' I tell %him %we get in and I tool the %machine down %sunset boulevard BIT OF GARDENING First Line: Perfectly tuned %here in green walking shorts %driving the pitchforkdeep in Last Line: We are %the weary %signaling through %time those mountains to %the north as %the space %closes BLACK First Line: There are nights so bad Last Line: Literature is %just no damned %good %now, %yours or %anybody%else's BLACK AND WHITE First Line: I must have checked in drunk Last Line: What to do with %myself BLACK AND WHITE ROACH First Line: This headline in the hollywood paper says Last Line: From the booth and walked back to the men's %room BLACK SUN First Line: Caresse crosby published my first short story Last Line: If she'd had the chance BLADE First Line: There was no parking near the post office where BLASTED APART WITH THE FIRST BREATH First Line: Running out of days Last Line: As the banister glints %in the early morning sun BLOCK First Line: In the past two months the poems have Last Line: They might even remember %me BLOCKED First Line: It was 11:45 a.M. When the phone rang. Martin glisson was asleep Last Line: He was driving in the wrong direction, %away from his house,but it didn't seem to matter BLUE BEADS AND BONES First Line: As the orchid dies Last Line: Behind me, the day had really begun BLUE CHEESE AND CHILI PEPPERS First Line: These women are supposed to come Last Line: No damned progress %at all BLUE COLLAR SOLITUDE First Line: Picking up two-six-packs Last Line: Wiggling the right %toe %watching %it BLUE HEAD OF DEATH First Line: Listening to richard strauss Last Line: Know what to do BLUE MOON, OH BLEWEEWW MOOOOON HOW I ADORE YOU! First Line: I care for you, darling, I love you Last Line: Bow wow bow wow wow BLUE PIGEON First Line: Getting a car wash today Last Line: Took a right at %vermont BLUEBIRD Poem Text Recitation BLUEBIRD First Line: There's a bluebird in my heart that Last Line: Weep, do %you BODY First Line: I have been %hanging here Last Line: My hands let go let go %let go BOIL First Line: I was making good with the girls on the assembly line at BONAPARTE'S RETREAT First Line: Fred, they called him Last Line: And it's not %there %anymore BONE PALACE BALLET First Line: As many interpretations of Last Line: And the volcano laughing BORN TO LOSE First Line: I was sitting in my cell Last Line: They put spillane in license plates BOY AND HIS DOG First Line: There's barry in his ripped walking shorts Last Line: He's aged a good many other people too BRAVO First Line: Summertime dogs %crushed on freeways Last Line: Let the music %play BRAVO! First Line: They applaud each work Last Line: Symphonie pathetique, indeed BREAKFAST First Line: Waking up all those mornings in the drunk tank Last Line: You have to die a few times before you live BRIGHT BOY First Line: We were in one of those after-hours places BRIGHT LIGHTS AND SERPENTS First Line: Oftentimes I can't separate the Last Line: Walked out to the parking lot BRIGHT RED CAR First Line: I try to avoid speed duels on the freeway but the most curious thing Last Line: It was a beautiful sunny day BRING ME YOUR LOVE First Line: Harry walked down the steps and into the garden. Many of the patients Last Line: All legs and arms and bodies in a desperate juxtaposition, %and reflected that way in the full-lengt BROKEN First Line: There isn't any %justification Last Line: Strangling that %tiny place %you call %love BROWN AND SOLEMN First Line: The dog jumps up on the bed Last Line: My parents didn't understand me either BRUCKNER First Line: Listening to bruckner now Last Line: Opening the morning mail BRUCKNER: 2 First Line: Bruckner wasn't bad %even though he got down Last Line: And the days are without end BULLY First Line: Actually, I do think that Last Line: With that %at %all BULLY First Line: He was big and he was always on me Last Line: And nobody ever talked about him %again BUM ON THE LOOSE First Line: I climbed off a park bench to engage the giants Last Line: I didn't think that they were all that good %tell me, do you? BUMMING WITH JANE First Line: There wasn't a stove BURLESQUE First Line: Jimmy, bill and I went every Last Line: As young as we were %ever going to %get BURN AND BURN AND BURN First Line: I used to know a dutchman in a philly bar Last Line: My master, then and %now BURNED First Line: The kid went back to new york city to live with a woman Last Line: I loved her, he says to me, %I loved her BURNING OF THE DREAM First Line: The old l.A. Public library burned %down %that library downtown Last Line: The prussian officer %the daring young man on the flying trapeze %to have and have not %you can't go BUTCH VAN GOGH First Line: Just before leaving east hollywood my cat got Last Line: Man, everything you touch turns to shit!' %he's right BUTTERFLIES First Line: I believe in earning one's own way Last Line: Who flutter to my tiny %flame %and %me BUY ME SOME PEANUTS AND CRACKERJACK First Line: It was a press conference at the office of the groundhogs Last Line: No, nothing. You got a nose like an elephant.' %'shit,' said larry %he reached down and scratched hi CAMUS Poem Text First Line: Larry awakened, got out of the twisted sheets, walked to the window Last Line: Place to / unwind Subject(s): Camus, Albert (1913-1960) CAMUS First Line: Larry awakened, got out of the twisted sheets, walked to the window Last Line: It was a mile or so from the university but well worth the drive. A damn %good place to unwind Subject(s): Camus, Albert (1913-1960) CANCER First Line: I found her room at the top of the stairway %she was alone Last Line: They walked off down the street %and I got into my car, %it started, and %I drove back to my %place CANDY-ASS First Line: The best part is that Last Line: Read this candy-ass poem %wretchedly CANNED HEAT? First Line: Not that I minded but I believe that my stint Last Line: I sat and waited for happier times CAPTAIN GOODWINE First Line: One goes from being a poet Last Line: The best way %I knew how CAR WASH First Line: Got out, fellow said, 'hey!' walked toward Last Line: Sure,' I said, 'I've been there' CARLTON WAY OFF WESTERN AVE. First Line: While the rents go up elsewhere Last Line: And don't forget the low rents CAT IS A CAT IS A CAT IS A CAT First Line: She's whistling and clapping CATCH First Line: Crud, he said, %hauling it out of the water Last Line: Then we all went our way on a mid-afternoon in august CATS TOO First Line: Your niece came and left Last Line: It's literary history CAUSE AND EFFECT First Line: The best often die by their own hand %just to get away Last Line: Can never quite understand %why anybody %would ever want to%get away %from %them CELEBRATING THIS First Line: You're never going to kid me because you see Last Line: No matter: I need nothing but my typing %fingers %and a %minimal %amount of %pain CELINE WITH CANE AND BASKET First Line: Tonight I am nothing Last Line: I light a cigarette and %wait CERTAIN PRIDE HERE First Line: I don't care to have my writing Last Line: In the n.Y. Times %hands %down CHALLENGE TO THE DARK First Line: Shot in the eye Last Line: Their death not my life CHANGE OF HABIT First Line: Shirley came to town with a broken leg Last Line: Handsome he looked %when he did CHARISME First Line: This woman keeps phoning me Last Line: I have a way with the ladies CHARLES First Line: 92 years old %his tooth has been bothering him Last Line: The smell of freshly-baked cookies %follows me CHARLES THE LION-HEARTED First Line: He's 95, lives in a large two story Last Line: Not quite so good %when it goes dark CHATTERTON TOOK RAT POISON AND LEFT THE REST OF US IN PEACE First Line: The old beatnik poet came by once again Last Line: To help keep me humble and pure and writing my own god stuff CHEMISTRY OF THINGS First Line: I always thought mary lou was skinny and CHICAGO First Line: I've made it, she said, I've come Last Line: I know more women like than than any %other kind CHICKEN GIBLETS First Line: He's like you, she said, he locks himself in Last Line: You never knew %it CHILDREN IN THE SKY First Line: The boys come up Last Line: There is nothing to do %now %but unpack CHINASKI First Line: Parodies himself, romanticizes himself Last Line: And now let us go on to %more worthwhile things CHOPIN BUKOWSKI First Line: This is my piano Last Line: And they like it and they do not %like it CHRISTMAS EVE, ALONE, Last Line: Evasion, my reasoning %is not CHRISTMAS POEM TO A MAN IN JAIL First Line: Hello bill abbott Last Line: And have I placed the commas here %properly, abbot? CIGARETTE OF THE SUN First Line: The headless dog snaps Last Line: You, you, you, %no mas, no more CIRCUS OF DEATH First Line: It's there %from the beginning, to the middle, to the end Last Line: As you put your shoes on for the last time %without %knowing %it CITY BOY First Line: I stopped in wyoming to drink in a bar Last Line: Nobody said %goodbye CLASS First Line: These boys have got class Last Line: Falls apart %so sad %again CLASSICAL First Line: Our english teacher in jr. High Last Line: Easy, thank you, lmrs. %gredis, thank %you CLASSICAL MUSIC AND ME First Line: I have no idea how it began Last Line: Life, helped me get %to %here CLAWS OF PARADISE First Line: Wooden butterfly Last Line: As the next while %walking in the sun CLEAN OLD MAN First Line: Here I'll be %55 in a %week Last Line: Come to my %senses CLEANSING THE RANKS First Line: What I am talking about, he said, is the reformed alcoholic, they have Last Line: Represented by worthless fakers: one can't give up %what one%never had CLEVER First Line: The clever people slide downstream like Last Line: While %disliking you. Or %worse CLICK OF MIRACLE First Line: At the quarterhorse meet %at hollywood park Last Line: Such small %moments %keep %people %alive %such small moments%so large %when %it all %comes %together CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF ANOTHER KIND First Line: Are we going to the movies or not Last Line: They were going to the movies %too CLOSE TO GREATNESS First Line: At one stage in my life COCKROACH First Line: The cockroach crouched Last Line: Make them wait a %few months COFFEE First Line: I was having a coffee at the COFFEESHOP First Line: She has served me and I am Last Line: Then hell isn't going to %be %so bad COKE BLUES First Line: If you think some women want only your love Last Line: And then one %wonders again COLD PLUMS First Line: Eating cold plums in bed Last Line: At 5:30 in the evening COLD SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Not as bad as yours, fante Subject(s): Cancer (disease) COLD SUMMER First Line: Not as bad as yours, fante Last Line: Might as well take a %swim COLORED BIRDS First Line: It is a highrise apt. Next door Subject(s): Social Problems COMBAT PRIMER First Line: They called celine a nazi Last Line: And then I'm going to sleep COME BACK First Line: In mannheim it was always the same: start Last Line: My world returning to normal COMMENTS UPON MY LAST BOOK OF POESY First Line: You're better than ever Last Line: I am going to publish all those letters you wrote me. %you jack-off motherfuck, you're not fooling a COMMUNION First Line: Horses running Last Line: Laughing with a %fool COMPANION First Line: I am not alone Last Line: Swaying on the %bough COMPANY First Line: The photo of celine looks at %me Last Line: I look at him tonight: %see his bones %dance: %the doctor from %hades COMPASSION First Line: She comes in and tells me that she just saw a dog Last Line: I turn up the music on the radio real loud COMPETITION First Line: We live by the harbor now Last Line: In the middle of the night COMPUTER CLASS First Line: Sitting in a computer class Last Line: We can't find it on the menu? COMPUTER NOW First Line: I was the drunk %typer in hock Last Line: I just didn't know any %better and I %did CONCRETE First Line: He had set up the CONDITION First Line: All up and down the avenues Last Line: Or as you read this: %your place now CONDITION BOOK First Line: The long days at the track have indented themselves Last Line: I am humanely destroyed, I am the horseplayer who %became the %racetrack CONFESSION First Line: Waiting for death Last Line: Said %I love %you CONFESSION OF A GENIUS First Line: During world war two Last Line: And yes I've been %there %ever %since CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, ONE First Line: I got drunk once and told Last Line: Dinner %that night CONVERSATION NOT TO REMEMBER First Line: Try shoveling sand, seems like there's nothing heavier Last Line: 3 or 4 hours, maybe %5 COOL BLACK AIR First Line: Often from my typing room I step out onto this small Last Line: I bang it %bang it %and wait COOPERATION First Line: She means well Last Line: And the sea is beautiful CORNERED First Line: Well, they said it would come to CORRECTION TO A LADY OF POESY First Line: Any ballplayer can tell you, diane Last Line: Children. They'll learn the real story %soon enough CORSAGE First Line: I suppose jr. High was the worst Last Line: Then I faced the other way and %continued my %journey COUNSEL First Line: I am living in hell, he told me, and I said, is that right Last Line: I hung up the receiver and pulled the %bottle %toward me COUPONS First Line: Cigarettes wetted with beer from Last Line: To help keep %my city %clean CRAZY TRUTH First Line: The nut in the all red outfit Last Line: It was a great day for accuracy %there on 7th street just off %weymouth CREATIVE ACT First Line: For the broken egg on the floor Last Line: This life dancing in front of %mrs. Death CREATIVE WRITING CLASS First Line: I'm guilty, I did take one Last Line: Than even he %had %expected CREDO First Line: Always fighting not to die in Last Line: Always fighting not to die in %life. %if anything makes sense, %let's call it %this CRICKETS First Line: Sound of doom like an approaching cyclone Last Line: Sex with a %woman or a man CRIME AND PUNISHMENT First Line: Mr. Sanderson was the principal of Last Line: About it %just the way it %was CROWD First Line: They love to huddle and chat away the Last Line: I have survived them %one %more %time CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND First Line: Yes, they begin out in a willow, I think Last Line: You look around and no longer %see any %old men CRUISING First Line: Totally mentally ripped Last Line: Smile %paradise at %last CRUNCH First Line: Too much %too little Last Line: It will not say %no CRUNCH (2) First Line: Too much %too little Last Line: And people are not good to each other CULTURE First Line: She was a class bitch although all her Last Line: There was nothing else to do %I waved goodbye CURIOUS THING First Line: I have known a great many women Last Line: Ladies have made %me so CURTAINS ARE WAVING AND PEOPLE WALK THROUGH ... First Line: I wait on life like a pregnancy, put the stethoscope to Last Line: No more policemen %no more %me CUT WHILE SHAVING First Line: It's never quite right, he said, the way the people look Last Line: I walked down the stairway and %into it D First Line: The doctor is into collecting art Last Line: Out of there %moving toward something %else DAGWOOD AND BLONDIE First Line: I swept underneath and got him Last Line: Meanwhile, it was a %startling %beautiful day DAMNATION OF BUK First Line: Getting old, and older, concerned that Last Line: And the night will never %come DANGEROUS LADIES First Line: They come visit and Last Line: And a marlboro in the other DANGLING CARROT First Line: The perfect poem will never be Last Line: Let us thank the gods DARK SHADES First Line: I never wear dark shades Last Line: And the joy behind %at the taco place DARK, AND DARKER First Line: If I can find one hour of peace a day Last Line: It began so long ago DARKENING LIGHT First Line: There are more and more Last Line: The cup of coffee as the %mudlark %strangles DARKLING First Line: Some nights you don't sleep Last Line: The venetian blinds closing us %all in DARKNESS First Line: Darkness falls upon humanity DARKNESS AND ICE First Line: I am spooked by the bluebells and the silent harp while Last Line: I push open the wooden wall and enter, ready and not ready %enough DARLINGS First Line: A world full of successful people's Last Line: Those they are directed against %instead of those who %direct them: %the fathers of the %darlings DAY First Line: Brock, the foreman, was always digging his fingers into his ass, using left han Last Line: There was a laugh-track on and the people on the laugh-trackwere laughing and laughing and laughing DAY IT RAINED AT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM First Line: The jew bent over and Last Line: Go away or I'll call %the guard DAY SO FLAT YOU COULD ROLL MARBLES ON IT First Line: Counted 12 bottles of soy sauce on the shelf Last Line: As I drove on to my next errand DAY THE EPILEPTIC SPOKE First Line: The other day %I'm out at the track Last Line: You know %just a %little DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME First Line: I came in and all the timecards wer Last Line: Nd I sat down and went to work DAYS AND NIGHTS First Line: Driving east down century blvd. In heavy slow %traffic Last Line: My wife is in %there %'hello,' I say %she's depressed DAYS LIKE RAZORS, NIGHTS FULL OF RATS First Line: As a very young man I divided an equal amount of time between Last Line: He rushes toward me and somehow it's a part of the part of the %part DEAD First Line: He wrote a joyous and mad Last Line: But the semesters %pass, quiet %seasons %r.I.P DEAD AGAIN First Line: Ben phoned and said, there's a rumor going around that Last Line: If we could celebrate men's lives %as well DEAD DOG First Line: Larry was subnormal. I always %liked talking to him Last Line: Why don't we go out and score %some coke?' DEAD FLOWERS OF MYSELF First Line: Bulls strut in pinwheel glory Last Line: Thank the god %who made %it DEAD NOW First Line: I always wanted to ball Last Line: That's all I had left %that night DEAR MR. CHINASKI First Line: I get letters in the mail telling me that Last Line: I'd write and ask him but I'm %not a %fan DEAR PA AND MA First Line: My father liked edgar allan Last Line: They both were %right DEATH IN THE MODERN AGE First Line: I am writing a novel now and one way or Last Line: Celebrates %its %greatness %now DEATH IS SMOKING MY CIGARS First Line: You know: I'm drunk once again Last Line: 5 god-damned minutes %and much %more DEATH OF A ROACH First Line: When the last fig falls and we are pruned from light Last Line: Man can only destroy himself DEATH OF A SPLENDID NEIGHBORHOOD First Line: There was a place off western ave. DEATH OF AN ERA First Line: My room was a block away Last Line: On that end %stool %just in %time DEATH OF AN IDIOT First Line: He spoke to mice and sparrows Last Line: And everything else that happened %then DEATH SAT ON MY KNEE AND CRACKED WITH LAUGHTER First Line: I was writing three short stories a week DEATHBED BLUES First Line: If you can't stand the heat, he says, get out of the Last Line: A set of retreads instead DECLINE First Line: Sitting naked behind the house Last Line: It won't be long for any of %us DEFEAT First Line: Listening to bruckner on the radio Last Line: I notice a wall socket %look, I've won DEFINING THE MAGIC First Line: A good poem is like a cold beer Last Line: A good poem knows when to %stop DEMISE First Line: The son-of-a-bitch Last Line: With a belly like butter (in that big %house) was right DEPRESSION KID (1) First Line: I never had any money but I did have a Last Line: The girl with the long blowing %hair was thinking of %me DEPRESSION KID (2) First Line: I never had money but I did have a bike Last Line: I had become a %man DESCENT OF THE SPECIES First Line: Sweet mama %she liked ice cream, candy bars Last Line: To the works of %de sade DESTROYING BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: A rose Last Line: It's beyond me Subject(s): Troy DICK First Line: I was sitting in my office in the dark Last Line: Then I sat there listening to the phone ring DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BAD POET AND A GOOD ONE IS LUCK First Line: I suppose so %I was living in an attic in philadelphia Last Line: Ran me out %of town DING-DONG First Line: He came over with a rag around his Last Line: Love is what mattered, %he went on %and %furthermore DINNER, 1933 First Line: When my father ate Last Line: I didn't %live %in DINNER, PAIN & TRANSPORT First Line: Slowly going %the way of witches Last Line: Like these birds in my walls DINOSAURIA, WE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Born like this Subject(s): United States; America DINOSAURIA, WE First Line: Born like this Last Line: Awaiting the next chapter DISGUSTING First Line: I've got this large plastic floater with headrest Last Line: It's so nice, this %road to %hell DO YOU USE A NOTEBOOK First Line: Many a time when I drive this black beauty out of the driveway Last Line: Listening to my footsteps as I walk on in DOESN'T SEEM LIKE MUCH First Line: My editor-publisher who is about Last Line: You up to it DOG First Line: A single dog Last Line: Of ten thousand gods. %why is this DOG FIGHT 1990 First Line: He draws up to my rear bumper in the fast lane Last Line: Approaching l.A. Airport. %1-2-3 %2-3-1 %3-2-1 DOGFIGHT First Line: He's a runt %he snarls and scratches Last Line: He ought to know better than to cross %the railroad tracks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGFIGHT OVER L.A. First Line: Left wing down, I go after mosk Last Line: Kiss the sweet lips of this dirty %world %goodbye DOGS First Line: Someplace in arizona %at the dog Last Line: Instead of mutilated %and murdered %forever DON'T CALL ME, I'LL CALL YOU First Line: Once more Last Line: As I rise %to move %to the %bathroom %to %piss in %wonderment DON'T COME ROUND BUT IF YOU DO... First Line: Yeah sure, I'll be in unless I'm out Last Line: Stopped or opened %forever DON'T FORGET First Line: There is always somebody or something Last Line: I just burnt my fingers on %this %cigarette DON'T PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM First Line: Bruch lived to be 82 DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE WITH ANYBODY ELSE BUT ME First Line: To choose %wisely is half way Last Line: So any %problem you have %with me %is %yours DON'T TOUCH THE GIRLS First Line: She's up seeing my doctor Last Line: Sure, I say and drive her on in DOOM AND SIESTA TIME First Line: My friend is worried about dying Last Line: Circling over my %sagging mattress DOSTOEVSKY First Line: Against the wall, the firing squad ready Last Line: Sharing the stinking dark with %my %brothers DOW AVERAGE DOWN First Line: When you %first meet them their eyes Last Line: We believed like dogs %believe DOWN BY THE SEA, THE BEAUTIFUL SEA First Line: We were telling stories and %my little girl Last Line: Before it vanished behind one of the burned-out piers DOWNERS First Line: Some people Last Line: To %create %one DOWNTOWN First Line: Nobody goes downtown anymore Last Line: Goes downtown anymore DOWNTOWN BILLY First Line: They used to call him Last Line: I have just taken %my %pills DOWNTOWN L.A. Poem Text First Line: Throwing your shoe at 3 a.M. And smashing the window, then Last Line: Going / nowhere Subject(s): Los Angeles DOWNTOWN L.A. First Line: Throwing your shoe at 3 a.M. And smashing the window, then Subject(s): Los Angeles DRAWER OF FISH First Line: He kept drawing fish DREAM First Line: I continually have dreams of being lost, of asking Last Line: And then, strangely enough, in a short while the dream is almost %forgotten DREAMLESSLY First Line: Old grey-haired waitresses Last Line: Of my fellow %creatures DRIESER WASN'T SO HOT EITHER First Line: He is really a nice fellow Last Line: Let us bless the %gods and everything %else.' DRILL First Line: Our marriage book Last Line: Fields? I suppose I %will DRINK First Line: The saddest bar I was ever Last Line: And that was %that DRIVE THROUGH HELL First Line: The people are weary, unhappy and frustrated, the people are DRIVING TEST First Line: Drivers %in defense and anger DRUNK TANK JUDGE Last Line: We walk and we drive away from the %courthouse. %justice DRUNK WITH THE BUDDHA First Line: The typewriter now hums and roars like an old %washing machine Last Line: You're just as %fucked up as I %am... Right? %right, he %laughs...%I type on %scattering any number DRYING OUT First Line: We buy the scandal sheets at the supermarket Last Line: Kick the shit out of half of tokyo DUCK AND FORGET IT First Line: Today at the track Last Line: I keep him %away DUMMY First Line: We've lived together 3 or Last Line: Now that's settled EACH MAN'S HELL IS DIFFERENT First Line: I get reports about a dear friend in Last Line: Never knowing %what you might have %been EAGLE OF THE HEART First Line: What will they be writing about 2000 years from Last Line: Shadows %of %hell EAT YOUR HEART OUT First Line: I've come by, she says, to tell you Last Line: I close the door EATING MY SENIOR CITIZEN'S DINNER AT THE SIZZLER First Line: Between 2 and 5 p.M. Any day and any time on sunday and Last Line: Daddy, make me love %you...' EDDIE AND EVE First Line: You know %I sat on the same barstool in philadelphia for Last Line: It was all I had left to do EDITH SENT US First Line: You just get home from the track after losing Last Line: The first drink, as always, is the best EDITOR First Line: He sat in the kitchen - at the breakfastnook table Last Line: Beer - in the %dark EDUCATION First Line: At that small inkwell desk EDWARD SBRAGIA First Line: Puffing on tiny cigarette butts as the world washes to the Last Line: World washes to the %shore EGG First Line: He's 17. %mother, he said, how do I crack an Last Line: And try to stay out of %arguments ELVIS LIVES First Line: The boy was going to take the bus out Last Line: Then he dropped the %first %one EMBRACERS First Line: I always meet these gregarious Last Line: The masses at the age %of 4 EMILY BUKOWSKI First Line: My grandmother always attended the sunrise Last Line: She wasn't very %interesting %but few people %are EMPTY GOBLET First Line: She said to me: 'you got drunk and told mother Last Line: And pours much too slow END OF A SHORT AFFAIR First Line: I tried it standing up Last Line: Bathroom, even faster %than sperm END OF AN ERA First Line: Parties at my place were EPILOGUE First Line: Fante gone to hollywood Last Line: Big white %pill ESCAPE First Line: The day you were starving and watching the Last Line: Nothing else made any %sense at %all ESCAPE First Line: The best part was ESCAPE First Line: Escape from the black widow spider Last Line: I've escaped. I view the other %webs EULOGY TO A HELL OF A DAME -- First Line: Some dogs who sleep at night Last Line: This dog %still %dreams about EVALUATION First Line: I've seen 70,000 horse races Last Line: A fellow had to keep his %hand in the %action EVALUATION First Line: Oh yes, I'm a good guy Last Line: This more than difficult world EVENT First Line: Earlier tonight %there was a fire in the Last Line: Turned on the radio %for something new EVERYBODY TALKS TOO MUCH First Line: When %the cop pulled me EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH First Line: Putting on your torn clothes in an old new orleans roominghouse Last Line: You couldn't argue with him about that EVERYWHERE, EVERYWHERE First Line: Amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery Last Line: There is nothing here for death to %take away EYELESS THROUGH SPACE First Line: It's no longer any good, sucker, they've Last Line: In the dark %going nowhere FACE OF A POLITICAL CANDIDATE ON A STREET BILLBOARD First Line: There he is: Last Line: He'll be elected FACT First Line: Careful poetry Last Line: To %die %safely FAIR STAND THE FIELDS OF FRANCE First Line: In the awesome strumming of no Last Line: I love you FALL First Line: There's a preacher on a uhf channel Last Line: The photo of john wayne blushed FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE First Line: Car on its side in the moonlight Last Line: In the brilliant and lovely %moonlight FALL OUT First Line: They are closing the auto plants Last Line: With an all-american %cast FAME First Line: John marlowe and his agent david hudson had been taking turns at thewheel Last Line: Dave had always wanted a new mercedes. Now he had one. For awhile anyhow FAME First Line: Some want it, I don't want it, I Last Line: Is a bigger fool than %his %following FAMOUS WRITER First Line: When I was a mailman Last Line: And then I felt somewhat better %but not %entirely, hardly %so FAN LETTER First Line: Dear mr. Chinaski, you probably get many letters Last Line: Bathtub and ruminate. %yrs., %billy (chips) weatherton FAN LETTER First Line: I been readin' you for a long time now Last Line: Eat now %so goodbye %dora FANTE First Line: Every now and themn it comes back to Last Line: Ah, no need for that %bulldog FAREWELL MY LOVELY First Line: She keeps coming back Last Line: Maybe fifteen minutes FAST LIFE First Line: She threw all my clothes out the front door Last Line: I'd check the rear view mirror %on the way FAST TRACK First Line: Jesus christ %the horses again Last Line: And get back %to work FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS First Line: At one time Last Line: Is now %no longer famous FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN First Line: My father was a practical man Last Line: And saved on hospital %bills FEAR First Line: He walks up to my volks Last Line: On a rainy wednesday %night FEAR AND MADNESS First Line: Barricaded here on the 2nd floor Last Line: I am in a small room again FEEL OF IT First Line: A. Huxley dies at 69 Last Line: Like %be %damned FEELING FAIRLY GOOD TONIGHT First Line: Thou shalt not fail as a writer Last Line: These words indented into the guts %of %time FELLOW COUNTRYMAN First Line: At the track Last Line: For a pretzel and a beer FIELD EXERCISES First Line: Is what they called them in the Last Line: And many of us %went FIGHT ON First Line: Pretty boy was tiring Last Line: And I thought about the %fight again FIGHTER First Line: Hemingway feels it from the grave Last Line: And you were %too %no matter %what they say %now Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) FILM MAKERS First Line: I can't shoot pool, don't want Last Line: People who hang around %celluloid %usually %are FINAL SCORE First Line: At the track today Last Line: He did to %himself %happy %journey FINAL STORY First Line: God, there he is drunk again FINAL WORD First Line: There he was in that room %beached %under that white sheet Last Line: It hung there %in the sky as %the fat belly of heaven %laughed: %'bitterness' FINAL WORD ON NO FINAL WORDS First Line: Near the end of the interview he leaned forward and Last Line: Then they were gone with their asses that needed saving %even worse than mine FINEST OF THE BREED First Line: There's nothing to FINGER First Line: The drivers of automobiles Last Line: What a hell of a way %to not %live FINGERNAILS First Line: The nurse looked at FINGERNAILS; NOSTRILS; SHOELACES Poem Text First Line: The gas line is leaking, the bird is out FINGERNAILS; NOSTRILS; SHOELACES First Line: The gas line is leaking, the bird is out of the Last Line: The eyes look at me, love breaks my %bones and I %laugh FINIS First Line: Those times are gone now Last Line: The last race is here FINIS II First Line: We all falter, give way, want to Last Line: Thinking again of the mad and %drunken %years FINISHED First Line: The ball comes up to the Last Line: Hell yes,' I say, 'anything %on tv' FINISHED? First Line: The critics now have me Last Line: I have no intention of %quitting short %or late %or satisfied FIRE STATION First Line: We came out of the bar Last Line: Harry the horse and the corner %newsboy FIRST LOVE First Line: At one time Last Line: I had it all %and %I took it FIRST ONE First Line: After she died Last Line: I paid and walked out on the %boulevard and never looked back FISHERMAN First Line: He comes out at 7:30 a.M.Every day Last Line: And waits for dinner FLASHING OF THE ODDS First Line: Parking lot attendant, bobby, was funny Last Line: And the day went %on FLAT TIRE First Line: Got a flat on the freeway Last Line: Sliced into the %sky FLIGHT TIME TO NOWHERE First Line: We are sitting together in the airport bar Last Line: Here at the bottom of the page FLOOR JOB First Line: She has a new apartment Last Line: I hear soft sounds from the night outside %and I am happy FLOPHOUSE Poem Text Recitation First Line: You haven't lived Last Line: And cold / out / here Subject(s): Flop-houses FLOPHOUSE First Line: You haven't lived Last Line: It's dark %and cold %out %here Subject(s): Flop-houses FLOSS, BRUSH AND FLUSH First Line: Sitting, talking through the Last Line: I am a joke told %again %I sleep FLOWER LOVER First Line: In the valkerie mountains Last Line: Killed a %peacock %instead FLYING THROUGH SPACE First Line: In jr. High school I was %coming out of the %sissy stage %and developing into Last Line: Finishing that, %I walked off toward %the shower %room, feeling the %wonder %and confusion %behind % FOLLOWING First Line: The phone rang at 1:30 a.M. FOOL First Line: I sat in that cheap hotel room Last Line: A lighter %or her next %move FOOL DINES OUT First Line: I am with others, including my wife, it is a dark and Last Line: Horribly, didn't I know how to act in public %and I won't %reply FOOLING MARIE First Line: He met her at the quarterhorse races, a strawberry FOR A MAN WHO WALKS AROUND MY TYPEWRITER VERY OFTEN First Line: I'd piss on the moon and light a cigarette Last Line: I'm not france %but if I were france %I'd call myself %celine FOR AL -- First Line: Don't worry about rejections, pard, Last Line: The phone has only rung once %wrong number FOR JANE First Line: 225 days under grass FOR MARILYN M. First Line: Slipping keenly into bright ashes Last Line: I raise my drink a full minute %and smile FOR MY IVY LEAGUE FRIENDS First Line: Many of those I met on the reading circuit or heard about on FOR SOME FRIENDS First Line: The sound of cunning Last Line: Ah, my friends %my friends %my friends FOR THE CONCERNED First Line: If you get married they think you're FOR THE FOXES, THE DEFAMERS First Line: Don't feel sorry for me FOR THE LADY WHO HATES IT First Line: The typewriter is like another head %with a lucky brain Last Line: It will take care %of damn near %everything %except %death and %bad %women FOR THE LITTLE ONE First Line: She's downstairs singing, playing her Last Line: As if magic had %become normal FOR THE MERCY-MONGERS First Line: It is justified %all dying is justified Last Line: Lifts up its %color FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T WAIT First Line: Sitting here at age 72 thinking about possibly being Last Line: In spite of you, %goodbye FORGET IT First Line: Now, listen, when I die I don't want any crying, just get the FORTY YEARS AGO IN THAT HOTEL ROOM First Line: Off of union avenue, 3 a.M., jane and I had been FOUR YOUNG GANG-BANGERS First Line: You know how women can get Last Line: You're certainly right,' %I replied FOURTEEN DOLLARS AND THIRTY-TWO CENTS First Line: Hair in the soup Last Line: De sade grins in the %dark FRACTIONAL NOTE First Line: The flowers are burning FREAKY TIME First Line: The lady down at the end of the bar keeps looking at Last Line: The next bar: knew it all along: she was a %whore FREE COFFEE First Line: It was on the telephone and he said, look, I'm with Last Line: As if she had been frozen for rebirth at a better time FREE DINNER First Line: I was still the starving writer when I met this beautiful Last Line: And my beautiful rich educated lady was gone %forever FREEWAY First Line: The seven suns dimmed into one Last Line: Exploded into a %beautiful %day FREEWAY LIFE First Line: Some fool kept blocking me and I finally got around him, and FRIEND First Line: It's curious: getting old and %older, still drinking, gambling,playing Last Line: Oh, hell %yes...' %I walk upstairs gladly to %shave and %primp %up FRIENDS WITHIN THE DARKNESS First Line: I can remember starving in a FROM AN OLD DOG IN HIS CUPS First Line: Ah, my friend, it's awful, worse FROZEN FOOD SECTION First Line: He'd been fighting it for years Last Line: You're going to %forget the %paprika...' FUCK First Line: She pulled her dress of Last Line: I try it %again FULL CIRCLE First Line: Sanford liked to play dirty Last Line: One more dirty trick in a dirty trick %world FULL MOON First Line: Red flower of love Last Line: I draw upon my cigarette FUNGOES First Line: Hit 'em high, %make the fielder go back for it Last Line: Bastards like that really %get on my nerves FUNNY First Line: Sometimes you are liked for all the wrong Last Line: While I sat %demeaned and %depressed FUNNY GUY First Line: Schopenhauer couldn't abide the masses FUNNY MAN First Line: Mr. Geomethel liked to hold saturday afternoon parties FUNNY? First Line: As my wife never understands my Last Line: To david letterman FUZZ First Line: 3 small boys run toward me Last Line: And %3 %candy bars GALLERY First Line: Saw this photo of GALLON OF GAS First Line: Shit, said wren, we're out of gas Last Line: Skipping through the brush GAMBLERS First Line: The young boys at the track, what are they doing here? Last Line: We can't stick them into a uniform just yet %but wait a while GARBAGE First Line: I had taken a tremendous beating GARDEN TALK First Line: The great blaze of noon,' said Last Line: To get away %from %all of them GAY PAREE First Line: The cafes in paris are just like you imagine GENIUS First Line: He %usually wore a vest and Last Line: Glad %when he left GENIUS First Line: This man sometimes forgets who Last Line: Out %but %himself GENTLEMAN AND THE BASTARD First Line: The l.A. Rams in those days had Last Line: To any ram %games %since GERMAN BAR First Line: I had lost the last race big Last Line: Nobody wins. %ask caesar GET CLOSE ENOUGH AND YOU CAN'T SEE First Line: At this time Last Line: Like %to my %ladies GETTING MY MONEY'S WORTH First Line: The water was cold and filled with bits of seaweed Last Line: The good life of the california %sportsman GETTING OLD First Line: I am watering the front patch %when I see a neighbor across the street Last Line: There it is: %more drug-related %murders %nothing like that %in my day %no way GIGANTIC THIRST First Line: Benn on ant bodies for almost 6 months, baby, ta cure a case Last Line: Now, you talk and I'll %listen GINSBERG? First Line: I am sitting in the clubhouse Last Line: Feeling good %just like a gardener %should %out on a gambling night %after a row with %his woman GIRL ON THE BUS STOP BENCH First Line: I saw her when I was in the left lane Last Line: And %wrote this poem GIRLS First Line: I used to spend 3 days a week Last Line: Until the next %time GIRLS First Line: I have been looking at Last Line: Through %5 years' %worth GIRLS AND THE BIRDS First Line: The girls were young %and worked the %streets %but often couldn't %score, they Last Line: Watching my grandmother's canaries %make droppings %into their seed and into their water and the can GIRLS AT THE GREEN HOTEL First Line: Are more beautiful than Last Line: There'll be some %laughs %tonight GIRLS COMING HOME First Line: The girls are coming home in their cars Last Line: Around here %at 5:35 p.M GIRLS FROM NOWHERE First Line: The girls from nowhere came Last Line: And they %did %it GIRLS IN PANTYHOSE First Line: Schoolgirls in pantyhose Last Line: But the bus will %get them first GIRLS WE FOLLOWED HOME First Line: The girls we once followed home are Last Line: Bright dresses %I remember GLASGOW First Line: Do you mean in scotland? Last Line: Hard-on since %1968 GLENN MILLER First Line: Long ago GLOOMY LADY First Line: She sits up there Last Line: Before she writes %her poems GOD'S MAN First Line: We were 10 or 11 years old Last Line: The light changed and %we crossed %over GODS First Line: I sit here on the 2nd floor Last Line: The gods smile down GOING AWAY First Line: Down through the last door Last Line: Past the last %last %word GOING ON First Line: Down at north avenue 21 you just slept on the floor and GOING OUT First Line: The sweet slide of the luger Last Line: Shut %hard %pal GOLD IN YOUR EYE First Line: I got into my bmw and drove down to my bank to %pick up my american express gol Last Line: A man can only be a creative %genius %at the very %edge %even though they never had the %guts to %tr GOLD POCKET WATCH First Line: My grandfather was a tall german Last Line: And I, we know each %other GOLDFISH Poem Text First Line: My goldfish stares with watery eyes Last Line: That we are the same? Subject(s): Goldfish GONE First Line: It left like the ladies of old GONE AWAY First Line: They were not quite looking at one Last Line: Slammed the door %behind him GOOD GANG, AFTER ALL First Line: I keep hearing from the old dogs GOOD JOB First Line: Some jobs you like Last Line: Good enough %right %then GOOD LIFE First Line: A house with 7 or 8 people Last Line: Want to speak to %allan GOOD LOSER First Line: Red race %texas %and age Last Line: He's got nothing to do GOOD MORNING, HOW ARE YOU First Line: $250,000 home, swimming pool, tennis court GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE First Line: Music of the worm Last Line: And flying fish will still continue to %fly GOOD OLD MACHINE First Line: I was 50 years old when this fellow %took me out of the common labor%market Last Line: That's not saying much %for my thankfulness %writers, my friend, can sometimes %only write GOOD ONE First Line: I get too many Last Line: I liked that %phone call GOOD SHOW First Line: Rena had 30 pairs of high-heeled shoes on the floor Last Line: Frederick's isn't the same without her GOOD SOUL First Line: It's not enough that he's one of Last Line: Come here and %bite %this GOOD TIME First Line: Now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don't want GOOD TIME GIRL First Line: You had your crowd Last Line: Parties, you son of a %bitch! GOOD TIMES First Line: I had been sad and hungover Last Line: The year was 1953 and she was very proud GOODBYE First Line: Goodbye hemingway goodbye celine (you died on the same day) Last Line: I'm drinking an extra bottle of wine for you %tonight GRACE First Line: The lady is passing with the tray Last Line: Tired of death, you %tried like that GRASS First Line: At the window %I watch a man with a Last Line: Flat on their spring backs %and smiling GRAVEL OF SUNLIGHT First Line: Fourhundredthousanddogs tangle in my brain among the kelp and seaweed Last Line: Like a snail dropping from a leaf leav us alone we are fine we %knew more than the books %we gave it GREAT ESCAPE First Line: You know what li po said when asked if he'd rather be an Last Line: Pissed-on, %diddled GREAT JAZZ First Line: You keep getting an idea Last Line: Last, at last, at %last GREAT SHOW First Line: When I went to visit my friend Last Line: To have bacon with %her %eggs GREAT SLOB First Line: I was always a natural slob %I liked to lay upon the bed Last Line: They seemed to also:always leaving %but almost %always %coming %back GREATEST ACTOR OF OUR DAY First Line: He's getting fatter and fatter Last Line: Like %everybody %else GREEK First Line: The guy in the front court can't Last Line: I have fastened to him already GREEN First Line: I've been drunk in front of cracked bathroom mirrors Last Line: Close enough %all by %itself GROUNDER TO THE SHORTSTOP First Line: Ten minutes left to get the word down Last Line: Let the gods rattle somebody %else's venetian %blinds. %good night GUAVA TREE First Line: Ilay with my white belly up to the sun under the pineapple Last Line: Celebrating under this pineapple guava tree just %before noon GUESS WHO? First Line: She pased from one important man Last Line: With all the gold %in her teeth GUEST First Line: We got drunk Last Line: Barked about nothing GUILLOTINE First Line: I knew my black friend long ago when we both worked in the same pit of agony Last Line: And he'd slam his drink down %as disgusted with the living and the dead as I %was GUITAR PLAYER First Line: He came from south carolina Last Line: It made them think %of home %and rex %says %'hello.' GURU First Line: Big black beard Last Line: Dinky dog of %terror HAND-OUTS First Line: Sometimes I am hit Last Line: In %and %give HANDS First Line: I'm not even drinking Last Line: Yesterday I was %very %depressed HANDS First Line: I am a fairly large man HANGING THERE ON THE WALL First Line: I used to look across the room Last Line: A painting nobody would ever see %except me HANGOVERS First Line: I've probably had more of them Last Line: Nobody %but myself %amen HAPPY BIRTHDAY First Line: When wagner was an Last Line: Does have some %virtue HAPPY LIFE OF THE TIRED First Line: Neatly in tune with Last Line: It's so %muggy HARD TIMES First Line: As I got out of my car down at the docks HARD TIMES ON CARLTON WAY First Line: Somebody else was killed last night Last Line: The 12 dead roses look at me HARDLY NIRVANA First Line: Look, I asked the waiter, don't you have %beer in a bottle? Last Line: Sunday nights in san pedro %aren't very %much HAWLEY'S LEAVING TOWN First Line: This guy %he's got a crazy eye Last Line: We know something HE ALSO FLOSSES EVERY DAY First Line: The strangler has %murdered and sexually molested Last Line: Brown sneakers with black %shoelaces. %happy new %year HE BEATS HIS WOMEN First Line: You know, writers will arrive and knock on HE EVEN LOOKED LIKE A NICE GUY First Line: He packaged it up neatly in different sections Last Line: It was very strange HE KNOWS US ALL First Line: Hell crawls through the window Last Line: Off looking for you, %my friend? HEAT WAVE First Line: Another one Last Line: Written in the 19th %century HELL HATH NO FURY First Line: She was in her orange volks waiting Last Line: I got into the orange volks and we %drove off together HELL IS A CLOSED DOOR First Line: Even when starving Last Line: As hard as a %writer HELL IS A LONELY PLACE First Line: He was 65, his wife was 66, had %alzheimer's disease Last Line: Ross %and his wife %anatana %who studied %ballet %they looked like another %upwardly mobile %pair HELL IS NOW First Line: The sun was rather diminished Last Line: In the year of our %lord HELL YES, I'LL GO First Line: I am standing around the track after the first race Last Line: Always been a war HELLO First Line: Sometimes even writing doesn't help Last Line: Your other keyboard. %hello, there HELLO, BARBARA First Line: 25 years ago Last Line: Guys like me %seldom %do HELLO, HAMSUN First Line: After two-and-one-half bottles Last Line: Swimming upward %sideways %down HELP WANTED First Line: I was a crazed young man and then found this book written HELPING THE OLD First Line: I was standing in line at the bank today HEMINGWAY NEVER DID THIS Poem Text First Line: I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on a Last Line: And / mine Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) HEMINGWAY NEVER DID THIS First Line: I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on a Last Line: Let's hope so, for your sake %and %mine Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) HEMINGWAY'S SHADOW First Line: I met the famous writer but he had walked into all the Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) HERE I AM First Line: Drunk at 3 a.M. At the bottom of my 2nd bottle Last Line: Me %later %for you HERE WE GO AGAIN First Line: I walked out to my car Last Line: And cat food and maybe onions too HERO AND THE SHORTSTOP First Line: The babe would get drunk and dangle rabbit Last Line: About it, and then you have %all the others HEY DOLLY First Line: She left me 5 weeks ago and went to utah Last Line: And they drove away toward the west. I'm sure it was %her, this time HEY, EZRA, LISTEN TO THIS First Line: I think I learned much about writing when Last Line: When to go wild %and how HEY, HEY, HEY First Line: Sometimes it's bad or just ordinary Last Line: Crawl the walls of your %brain HIGHSCHOOL GIRLS First Line: The girls used to say to me: you're so Last Line: That they just wore it all %out HISTORY OF A TOUGH MOTHERFUCKER First Line: He came to the door one night wet thin beaten and Last Line: He too knows it's bullshit but that somehow it all helps HOCK SHOPS First Line: Were always alright with me Last Line: All right %with me HOG First Line: He couldn't get the puck into the net Last Line: He knew his job HOLD ON, IT'S A BELLY LAUGH First Line: It would be good to get Last Line: What you %flush %away HOLLYWOOD RANCH MARKET First Line: She was 32 years younger Last Line: Fix the streets anymore HOOKERS, THE MADMEN AND THE DOOMED First Line: Today at the track Last Line: And we all went on about our business HOORAY SAY THE ROSES First Line: Hooray say the roses, today is blamesday Last Line: And that is why you like us HORSE AND FIST First Line: Boxing matches and the racetracks Last Line: And the last flash of the %tote HORSE FLY First Line: The pimpled young man with his cap on backwards Last Line: As he checked his program %I walked %off HORSE WITH GREENBLUE EYES First Line: What you see is what you see Last Line: And the oranges and apples %roll away HORSEMEAT First Line: I park, get out, lock the car, it's a perfect day, warm and Last Line: Many of the other pieces %which followed HORSEPLAYER First Line: How strange it is on Last Line: Still can't be %stopped HORSESHIT First Line: The horse stood in the yard and Last Line: October and all the poor had left town except me HORSESHOE First Line: Forgot I had a dental appointment the next day %and in the early a.M. Last Line: As far to the south the ocean %roared %and far to the north %the mountains didn't %care HOT First Line: She was hot, she was so hot Last Line: And got into the hot %water HOT First Line: There's fire in the fingers and there's fire in the shoes and there's HOT DOG First Line: Almost every time %after we started in Last Line: With eyes as beautiful %as those on that dog HOT MONTH First Line: Got 3 women coming down in Last Line: The works of %de sade HOUSE First Line: They are building a house Last Line: And return to my room HOW COME YOU'RE NOT UNLISTED First Line: The men phone and ask me that Last Line: But the inspiration is there HOW DO THEY GET YOUR NUMBER? First Line: The dogs of hell have claws like cats Last Line: For you somewhere! Ha, ha, ha...' HOW I GOT STARTED First Line: It has taken me decades to realize HOW IS YOUR HEART First Line: During my worst times HOW TO BE A GREAT WRITER First Line: You've got to fuck a great many women Last Line: And if there's not %that's all right %too HOW TO GET RID OF THE PURISTS First Line: Several months ago I was sent some tapes Last Line: They certainly must be %something %real HUG THE DARK First Line: Turmoil is the god Last Line: Stay away from god %remain disturbed %slide HUGE EAR RINGS First Line: I go to pick her up Last Line: Now she puts on her %mascara as we %drive along HUH First Line: In %germany france italy HUH First Line: Dead in my shoes, scooped empty Last Line: Meanwhile, a good night's %sleep will %do HUMMINGBIRD CHANCE First Line: Held to this life, neatly, walking free or caged Last Line: We're held to this, held to this, held to %this, %held HUNCHBACK First Line: Moments of agony and moments of glory Last Line: But not dead yet HUNGER First Line: I have been hungry many times Last Line: I closed my mouth and kept walking HUNK OF ROCK First Line: Nina was the hardest of them Last Line: Blazing %in the %lamplight HUSTLE First Line: The readings in those college towns were hell Last Line: It was just like being back %home HYMN FROM THE HURRICANE First Line: Paid my dues in macon, went crazy in tennessee Last Line: As is the yellow thumping of the sun and the glory of the world I AM A REASONABLE MAN First Line: I had flown a thousand miles to see her Last Line: Just for old time's %sake I AM CHASTISED First Line: She was driving the car Last Line: I told the waitress, %'now.' I AM DEAD BUT I KNOW THE DEAD ARE NOT LIKE THIS First Line: The dead can sleep Last Line: From frogs and fortunes I AM KNOWN First Line: It's a bad day at the %track: I've made some %unfortunate plays Last Line: Well, somewhere over the rainbow %bluebirds fly %and I hope they shit %all over %him I BEEN WORKING ON THE RAILROAD First Line: The great editor said he wanted to meet me I CAN'T STAY IN THE SAME ROOM WITH THAT WOMAN FOR FIVE MINUTES First Line: I went over the other day Last Line: The remainder of the day was bound to be better I CAN'T STOP First Line: People keep telling me Last Line: This is just another %boring poem I DIDN'T WANT TO First Line: I was always a bad typist and I never learned to spell Last Line: I should have loved her more than I did but I didn't want to I DON'T CARE First Line: I can't do it anymore, any of it, I'm turning in my Last Line: Now, there's an art I can still handle I DON'T WANT CLEOPATRA First Line: I am always exposing myself Last Line: Be faithful to the end I FALL INTO IT WITHOUT TRYING... First Line: She confessed to me Last Line: And waited for it %to end I HAVE SHIT STAINS IN MY UNDERWEAR TOO First Line: I hear them outside Last Line: 25 foot flames licking toward %doom I HAVE THIS ROOM First Line: I have this room up here where I sit alone Last Line: In this room up here I HEAR ALL THE LATEST HIT TUNES First Line: Somewhere in whatever neighborhood Last Line: Son-of-a-bitch what suffering is I INHERIT First Line: The old guy next door died Last Line: Hell out of my way! I KNOW YOU First Line: You with long hair, legs crossed high, sitting at the end of Last Line: You tiresome daughter-of-a-bitch, come on in, the door is %open I LIKE YOUR BOOKS First Line: In the betting line the other %day %man behind me asked are you henry %chinask Last Line: He was not there: %lost another reader %I lose 2 or 3 each %week %fine %let 'em go back to %kafka I LIKED HIM First Line: I liked d. H. Lawrence Last Line: With his worm-hole eyes I LOVE YOU First Line: I opened the oor of this shanty and there she lay Last Line: At the first %bar I MADE A MISTAKE First Line: I reached up into the top of the closet Last Line: Wondering where the good luck %went I MEET A VEGETARIAN First Line: They had ten cents hot dog night Last Line: Turned and faced the toteboard, %she laughed I MEET THE FAMOUS POET First Line: This poet had long been famous I MET A GENIUS First Line: I met a genius on the train Last Line: It was the first time I'd %realized %that I MIGHT GET TRADED First Line: They sent the old second baseman Last Line: It looks like %a slow night in %san pedro I THOUGHT THE STUFF TASTED WORSE THAN USUAL First Line: I used to drink with jane I USED TO FEEL SORRY FOR HENRY MILLER First Line: When he got old he stopped writing, dabbled with Last Line: Away at the racetrack I WANT A MERMAID First Line: Speaking about going crazy Last Line: Plate glass window %and wait I WANTED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT ... First Line: 30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and one fox Last Line: And knew that soon very soon I would have to get %very drunk again I WAS GLAD First Line: I was glad I had money in the savings and loan Last Line: I was glad I had money in the savings and loan I WAS HER LOVER First Line: It's my turn now up through the green wave Last Line: And she turned her back and walked away I'LL HAVE IT TO GO First Line: The mass of damnation slugs the senses let alone the streets of Last Line: Contact the gas company to have your service %restored I'LL SEND YOU A POSTCARD First Line: This guy says that for $845 I can Last Line: Nobody who goes %will be I'LL TAKE IT First Line: Maybe I'm going crazy, that's all right I'M A FAILURE First Line: I locked my car door Last Line: You just didn't know how to do %things,' she answered I'M GETTING BACK TO WHERE I WAS First Line: I used to take the back off Last Line: Eyes to knock out %the sun I'M IN LOVE First Line: She's young, she said Last Line: And all my poems were %false I'M NOT A MISOGYNIST First Line: More and more I'VE SEEN TOO MANY GLAZED-EYED BUMS SITTING UNDER A BRIDGE First Line: You sit on the couch Last Line: I'll surely go %first the last %way ICECREAM PEOPLE First Line: The lady has me temporarily off the bottle Last Line: The icecream people make me feel good, %inside and out IDEAL First Line: The waxmans, she said Last Line: Uh huh, I said in honor of %the dead IDIOT First Line: I believe the thought came to me Last Line: In the city of %los angeles IF YOU LET THEM KILL YOU, THEY WILL First Line: Fletcher was a kick in the balls, kept telling me how intelligent hewas Last Line: And then I drank to the old %man %this old man, %who'd finally found out %how to be %kind to %himsel IGLOO First Line: His name was eddie and he had a Last Line: Had managed to %break eddie's leg ILL First Line: Being very ill and very weak is a very strange Last Line: Just like everybody %else IMAGE First Line: He sits in the chair across from me Last Line: I'm parked now IMAGINATION AND REALITY First Line: There are many single women in the world Last Line: One of those coffee cups without him %jumping out IMMORTAL WINO First Line: Li po, I keep thinking of you as I %empty these bottles of wine Last Line: As I pour a %full glass of %this beautiful red wine %to you IMMORTALS First Line: The old jazz place Last Line: Between sets %their sets IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MURDER First Line: The roaches spit out Last Line: We presume %by the %cats IN AND OUT OF THE DARK First Line: My wife likes movie houses, the popcorn and softdrinks, the Last Line: The light changes and we escape %forward IN DREAMS BEGIN RESPONSIBILITIES First Line: He had velvet eyes and trouble with paul goodman %and his gang Last Line: But his was a %grievous life %at best IN ERROR First Line: A warrior Last Line: Into %the %house IN OTHER WORDS First Line: The egyptians loved the cat Last Line: We may try to do to spoil it IN THE BOTTOM First Line: In the bottom of the hour Last Line: And the next to last line %and then the last IN THE CENTER OF THE ACTION First Line: You have to lay down like an animal Last Line: Lay down and wait like %an animal IN THE LOBBY First Line: I saw him sitting in a lobby chair Last Line: And I was angry enough to swear IN THE MOUTH OF THE TIGER First Line: The rivers of hell are well Last Line: I would have nobody be %me %now IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROSE First Line: Branching out, grubbing down Last Line: Turn out the lights and %wait IN THIS CAGE SOME SONGS ARE BORN First Line: I write poetry, worry, smile Last Line: We are nothing more IN THIS CITY NOW First Line: Wives' heads are Last Line: The rest %of it too IN TRANSIT First Line: The french border guard had a black waxed Last Line: Out there, truly %refreshing INACTIVE VOLCANO First Line: The bartenderat musso's Last Line: Wait %and %see INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: It was the 4th of july and I was Last Line: Go easy, I am one tough %son of a bitch INDIAN First Line: The old indian in texas Last Line: Yeah, I think it's good, %I told him INSANE ALWAYS LOVED ME First Line: And the subnormal Last Line: He grins at %me INSANITY First Line: Sometimes there's a crazy one in the street Last Line: Remember that christ also was insane INSPECTION First Line: It was a small dusty town in east texas Last Line: The parade could %begin INTELLECTUAL First Line: She writes %continually %like a long nozzle Last Line: As if %it hadn't happened INTERLUDE First Line: It was on western avenue Last Line: Ducking my head down %into the night INTERLUDE First Line: It's been raining forever here Last Line: Then I'll snap out of it. %maybe INTERVIEW First Line: Are you getting mellow? He asked Last Line: Turning off the tape machine INTERVIEW First Line: What would you do if you had 5 minutes to Last Line: He looked pretty %satisfied INTERVIEWERS First Line: The interviewers come around Last Line: Anything behind so you %have to %come back INTERVIEWS First Line: Young men from the underground Last Line: Some fried chicken %buk INVASION First Line: I didn't know that INVITATION First Line: Hey chinaski Last Line: When in doubt %pass out IRON MIKE First Line: We talk about this film Last Line: Are never finally the %teeth of love IT GOT AWAY First Line: Lost another poem Last Line: Waiting for %the big %one IT'S A SHAME First Line: A great mind and a good body seldom go Last Line: As the snail comes crawling home %to manna IT'S ALL SO CLEARLY SIMPLE First Line: The night the dogs came by to say IT'S DIFFICULT FOR THEM First Line: Some university profs Last Line: Living, dying or about to be %bvorn, uh %huh IT'S DIFFICULT WHEN BANANAS EAT MONKEYS First Line: It's partly the burning and it's partly the muddy Last Line: When he should be %guillotined IT'S FUNNY, ISN'T IT? First Line: Switching the tv channels %endlessly %you get %all the faces Last Line: These are not %my people %where have %my people %gone? IT'S FUNNY, ISN'T IT? #1 First Line: We were standing around IT'S FUNNY, ISN'T IT? #2 First Line: When we were kids IT'S OURS First Line: There is always that space there IT'S SLOW TONIGHT First Line: Well, here I sit again Last Line: Fools forever. %gladly. %now IT'S STRANGE First Line: It's strange when famous people die Last Line: We become troubled IT'S THE WAY YOU PLAY THE GAME First Line: Call it love Last Line: Into the hydrangea JACK First Line: Jack with the long hair Last Line: Sliding down the beanstalk JACK-KNIFE First Line: As you see the large Last Line: And we move onto %the boulevard JACKALS First Line: As the years went on I seemed to have more luck Last Line: Not a jackal in %sight JAM First Line: That harbor freeway south through the downtown Last Line: Somehow, maybe %to %die JANE AND PRINCE First Line: We all lived together Last Line: I like it %very much JANUARY First Line: Here %you see this JEFFERS First Line: His blood-smearded horizons %his hawks casting shadows of %doom Last Line: His gigantic crushed earth %bellows %against dumb %time JOCKEY First Line: Warming up blue mongoose on the backstretch before the last race Last Line: He felt her walking up behind him. He waited and looked at the lights %of the city JOHN DILLINGER AND LE CHASSEUR MAUDIT First Line: It's unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don't care Last Line: And the end of the sun, %I sometimes look JOHN DILLINGER MARCHES ON First Line: I sometimes write about the 30's because Last Line: But I'm still hardly tempted to %adore %them JOKE First Line: It often happens when the party is Last Line: No wait, I've forgotten %it %you're %lucky JON EDGAR WEBB First Line: I had a lyric poem period down in new orleans, pounding JOURNEY First Line: There is this fellow in the netherlands who keeps sending Last Line: Fast the bottle empties ... Among your photos ... The %dark luck is good JUNK First Line: Sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 junkies Last Line: This is %some of it JUNKIES First Line: She shoots up in the neck, she told Last Line: And not much chance for anybody JUST ANOTHER BAD AFFIAR First Line: Paris %is the place you've heard about Last Line: Let us quietly %say goodbye JUST TRYING TO GET A LITTLE SERVICE .... First Line: I am drinking beer %I have a table to the side and waiting for my order Last Line: I take another %hit of my beer: %something's always %after a man JUSTICE First Line: You take the train from K.O. First Line: He was easy, fat as a hummingbird Last Line: I always was a poor winner KENYON REVIEW AND OTHER MATTERS First Line: It was good being young but I didn't know it, a starving Last Line: I walked into %them KID First Line: Had trouble hitting left Last Line: Right in the %race %come %september KILLER First Line: Consistency is terrific Last Line: Falls upon flowers KILLER First Line: It was one of those days Last Line: Drinking jack daniels %with beer %chasers KILLER GETS READY First Line: He was a good one Last Line: 8 or 10 miles -- %was perfect KILLER SMILES First Line: The old girl friends still phone Last Line: I always hang up %justified KILLING LIFE First Line: Minor and trivial complaints Last Line: Sits in the corner %smiling KISS-OFF First Line: It was one of those Last Line: Around, we all came all %around KNIFER First Line: You knifed me, he said, you told pink eagle Last Line: Innocence and I might consider %yours KRUTZ First Line: I was in mannheim when my agent phoned me Last Line: Feeling better %but not %much LA FEMME FINIE First Line: Once a fine poetess Last Line: Why she hasn't %written lately LACK OF ALMOST EVERYTHING First Line: The essence of the belly Last Line: Palm springs and tell her %what's wrong LADIES OF SUMMER First Line: The ladies of summer will die like the rose Last Line: Before taking them LADIES' MAN First Line: There were knocks at my door at 3 or 4 a.M. Last Line: The other half was letting it happen LADY AND THE MOUNTAIN LION First Line: It was hardly a wilderness area Last Line: A truly beautiful %animal LADY IN RED First Line: People went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook Last Line: Non-bullshit time, especially after we got rid of herbert hoover LADY IN THE CASTLE First Line: She lived in this house LADY POET First Line: It was 7 or 8 years ago Last Line: Or even %wants to? LADY WHO LOOKS YOUNG FOREVER First Line: Is in trouble Last Line: But have cheer: she'll never %die: film lasts longer than we%do LADY WITH SOME FRENCH WINE First Line: I picked up the phone, answered as her voice rushed Last Line: She was absolutely %right LAID UP First Line: Eddie in the back court, I knew his wife Last Line: And while the helicopters were flying overhead, eddie with the %sleeping sickness LAST CALL (1) First Line: This is it, sucker, the dead nightingale Last Line: Quite %not quite %not %not %quite LAST CALL (2) First Line: Totally written out at 2 a.M. Last Line: Try not to be %them %please LAST DRINK First Line: Always, this late at night, I %come down to the last drink and Last Line: And I move toward the bedroom %followed by music and joy %atmy heels: the perfect %last drink %one m LAST FIGHT First Line: He's just a handler Last Line: Decisions for %that %son-of-a- %bitch LAST GENERATION First Line: It was much easier to be a genius in the twenties, there were Last Line: That was not your best work LAST HIDING PLACE First Line: Say %there's a man named jack and a woman %named nadine Last Line: The light goes to green as %jack gently shifts and glides forward into %the night LAST PERSON First Line: My wife doesn't understand %me %I will be driving the car %along Last Line: Only she's so %close %(nosed pressed flat) %that she can't see %anything %and this is no joke LAST POETRY READING First Line: Was back east %I had a drink on the plane Last Line: Bring on the next reading LAST SEAT AT THE END First Line: I was always studying the wood of the Last Line: And nothing lost %to the %unexpected LAST SHOT First Line: Here we are, once again, the last drink, the last LAST SONG First Line: Driving the freeway while Last Line: Is not so important %after %all LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT First Line: You stop agonizing for a while Last Line: This drizzling %suckerfish %nightmare LATE LATE LATE POEM First Line: You think about the time in LATE NIGHT First Line: The man on the radio speaks of the Last Line: Get up to go to the bedroom %to %sleep LATE PAYMENT First Line: A rifle bullet across the page and into shakespeare's Last Line: The last useless word looking for a place to die LAUGH First Line: Best was the time we were driving along after not seeing Last Line: Legged, immune to me: we've all been cheated LAUGH A MINUTE First Line: Come on, let's go see him, this old guy is a Last Line: Is a kick in the %ass LAUGH LITERARY First Line: Listen, man, don't tell me about the poems you Last Line: Please read our magazines before %submitting LAUGHING HEART First Line: Your life is your life Last Line: The gods wait to delight %in %you LAZY IN SAN PEDRO First Line: Quiet %sunbathing naked in your own backyard Last Line: Eat apricots, and the typewriter %sits upstairs %alone LEANING ON WOOD First Line: There are 4 or 5 guys at the Last Line: Wins. Ask %caesar LEGS First Line: Houdini was caught off guard Last Line: Smattering of applause LEGS AND WHITE THIGHS First Line: The 3 of us were somewhere Last Line: Thighs did for us then LEGS, HIPS AND BEHIND First Line: We liked the priest because once we saw him buy Last Line: And that madness and sorrow and fear were %almost everywhere LET 'EM GO First Line: Let's let the bombs go LET IT ENFOLD YOU First Line: Either peace of happiness Last Line: He waved %back %at %me LET IT GO First Line: Pissing drunk Last Line: Can be %quite an %adventure LET ME TELL YOU First Line: Hell is built Last Line: In the %morning %hell LET NOT First Line: Let not the people be your Last Line: Searching for %anything LET NOTHING EVER HAPPEN First Line: I drove in for gas and began filling my tank Last Line: To the worst music I could %find LET'S MAKE A DEAL First Line: In conjunction with LETTER FROM TOO FAR First Line: She wrote me a letter from a small Last Line: And went to bed LETTER TO A FRIEND WITH DOMESTIC PROBLEMS First Line: Hello carl LETTERS First Line: She sits me on the floor Last Line: Ah, she has a beautiful soul! LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE First Line: Bunch of guys sitting there drinking and louie Last Line: Story while I was thinkng up one of my %own LIBERATED WOMAN AND LIBERATED MAN First Line: Look there. %the one you considered killing yourself for Last Line: You turn off the engine and %follow her in LIBERTY First Line: She was sitting in the window Last Line: Now she wouldn't worry me about that %for a while LIFE LIKE A BIG TENDER GLOVE First Line: Old guy, small, maybe 67 but his hair is Last Line: Safe from the salt of the grumbling %sun %yea, yea, yea LIFE OF A BUM First Line: Harry awakened in his bed, hungover. Badly hungover %'shit,' he said lightly Last Line: As the light turned green, he forgot all about that. He crossed the %street to the other side and co LIFE OF BORODIN First Line: The next time you listen to borodin Last Line: The next time you listen to borodin, %remember LIFE OF THE KING First Line: I awaken at 11:30 a.M. Last Line: Thank him %all the way LIFEDANCE First Line: The area dividing the brain and the soul Last Line: Some lose both and become: accepted LIGHT BROWN First Line: Light brown stare Last Line: So very long %ago LIKE A CHERRY SEED IN THE THROAT First Line: Naked in that bright light Last Line: Good night, sweet %little %motherfucker LIKE A FLOWER IN THE RAIN First Line: I cut the middle fingernail of the middle Last Line: The cole slaw too LIKE A MOVIE First Line: It was like a movie. %I got the phone call and picked her up Last Line: I smiled at her %as she left %and closed the door LIKE A VIOLET IN THE SNOW First Line: In the earliest possible day Last Line: It is better than %the %alternative LIKE ALL THE YEARS WASTED First Line: Yesterday drunken alice %gave me Last Line: We go in %together LILIES IN MY BRAIN First Line: The lilies storm my brain Last Line: And the death of me, you and %the katzenjammer %kids LIONESS First Line: Look, the lioness is hungry Last Line: The lioness is %satisfied and full LISP First Line: I had her for 3 units Last Line: Still has me typng %love songs LISZTS First Line: On and on we go Last Line: Goring %gouging %rafting %grafting %gardening %going %gone LITERARY ROMANCE First Line: I met her somehow through correspondence or poetry or magazines Last Line: Either for love %or for %poetry LITTLE ATOMIC BOMB First Line: O, just give me a little atomic bomb Last Line: Send me one before somebody else %does LITTLE CAFE ON 6TH STREET First Line: Went in about 1:30 p.M. Last Line: I might not %go back there %either LITTLE GIRLS First Line: Up in northern california Last Line: We have not corresponded since LITTLE SLEEP AND PEACE OF STILLNESS First Line: If you're a man, los angeles is where you hang it up and Last Line: Which we are both praying and %ready for LITTLE SPOT OF SENSELESS YELLOW First Line: You can't tell me it's the best time for poetry Last Line: Handle a few times? Or it will just keep running like that forever LITTLE SUN First Line: The whores at the all-american burger Last Line: It hasn't been a very good %winter LITTLE THEATER IN HOLLYWOOD First Line: They didn't have change for $20 so Last Line: The drinks had been the best part %of it all LITTLE TIGERS EVERYWHERE First Line: Sam the whorehouse man Last Line: As do the days and the nights LIVING First Line: I mean, I just slept Last Line: Then I took a bath and went back to %bed LIVING IN A GREAT BIG WAY First Line: Nothing ever happened in the mexican bar, I went there Last Line: And switched from wine to vodka LOCKED IN First Line: Morning, %it touches the nerves Last Line: I feed the animals. %it's easy LOCKS First Line: I moved into a new place and decided to change the locks Last Line: I was at the racetrack as they were coming out %for the 5th race LONELY AT THE TOP First Line: Marty rang the doorbell and waited and the door opened and a big guy Last Line: 45, clicked off the safety %catch, lifted the gun and took aim at the damned thing LONER First Line: 16 and one-half inch Last Line: I haven't seen either of them %since LONGSHOT (1) First Line: She's not for you, man Last Line: A long afternoon %for both of us LONGSHOT (2) First Line: Of course, I had lost much blood LOOK BACK, LOOK UP First Line: Was celine married Last Line: See you at another %time %baby LOOK HERE! First Line: All my life %while walking around Last Line: There's not much else I %can do LOOKING FOR A JOB First Line: It was philly and the bartender said Last Line: I got over that and I was reading the %want ads again LOOKING FOR JACK First Line: Like the rest of us, jack didn't always shine too brightly Last Line: He did piss on barney rosset's shoe %at a party LOOKING FOR THE HIT MAN First Line: There is a lady whose poems I see LOOSELY LOOSELY First Line: Loosely in the universe, undone Last Line: Alleluliah! Alleluliah! Alleluliah! LORD BYRON First Line: He looked like lord byron Last Line: Milk free drinks %outa LOST First Line: We can't we can't win it Last Line: Than doves or switchbrakes or %love LOST AND THE DESPERATE First Line: It was nice to be a boy in a dark movie house Last Line: Wondering if they'd still be there %when I arrived LOST GENERATION First Line: Have been reading a book about a rich literary lady LOST SOUL First Line: Well, they warned me it would happen Last Line: Move off to the clubhouse LOUSY MAIL First Line: Drinking up here, looking out at the lights of Last Line: Kind at the same %time %how? LOVE & FAME & DEATH First Line: It sits outside my window now Last Line: Is to become suddenly %quiet LOVE (1) First Line: Answering a letter to somebody in alaska Last Line: I pick up the phone, say 'hello,' %and %wait LOVE (2) First Line: Love, he said, gas Last Line: He was pretty good %that day LOVE AND COURAGE First Line: The one I liked was where cagney Last Line: All the beatings he has taken %were worthwhile LOVE FOR THE FIRST WHORE First Line: Anti-women, of course I was, and it's too %bad we must Last Line: At one time or another %less or more LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL First Line: Feet of cheese Last Line: And lay down in my blue bedroom LOVE POEM FOR ALL THE WOMEN I HAVE KNOWN First Line: All the women %all their kisses the Last Line: Held I have been %held LOVE POEM TO A STRIPPER First Line: 50 years ago I watched the girls LOVELY COUPLE First Line: I had to take a shit Last Line: Sometimes you need %people like that LOVER First Line: At that apartment in east hollywood Last Line: I hoped that it would be a female voice LUCK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Once / we were young / at this / machine / drinking / smoking / typing Last Line: Closing / space Subject(s): Luck LUCK First Line: What's bad about all Last Line: People walk by LUCK First Line: Once %we were young %at this %machine %drinking %smoking %typing Last Line: Makes each word %drill %into the %paper %clear %fast %hard %feeding a %closing %space Subject(s): Luck LUCK OF THE DRAW First Line: After decades and decades of poverty Last Line: Or sometimes it can take %70 %years LUCK OF THE WORD First Line: Throughout the years Last Line: For the reader %and %the writer LUCK WAS NOT A LADY First Line: Being half-young I sat about the bars Last Line: I heard the sound of the %engine LUCKY ONES First Line: Stuck in the rain on the freeway LUNCH First Line: I parked in back %and went in to eat Last Line: I was at %the freeway %and %on my way MACHINEGUNS TOWERS & TIMECLOCKS First Line: I feel gypped by dunces Last Line: And rolls over into %another dream MACHO MAN Poem Text First Line: The phone rings. / I answer Last Line: Don’t be a pussy, pep squad. Just come now, he says Subject(s): Machismo MACHO MAN First Line: The phone rings. %I answer Last Line: Leaps upon the %bedcovers Subject(s): Machismo MAD ENOUGH First Line: It's not exactly clear to me how it started. There had been a $5k Last Line: By one night and talked about it. I sat and drank through the night %he didn't. It was very strange. MADEMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES First Line: If you gotta have wars Last Line: Not about all that MADMAN First Line: Being Last Line: With the yellow paint flaking off %showing areas of %steady grey %beneath MADNESS First Line: I don't beat the walls with my fists Last Line: One but I wasn't sure MADNESS? First Line: Look, he said, admit it Last Line: And said, forget it, friend MAGIC CURSE First Line: I never liked skid-row and so I stayed away from the soup MAGIC MACHINE First Line: I liked the old records that MAGICIAN, GONE First Line: They go one by one and as they do it gets closer MAHLER First Line: The phone rings and somebody says Last Line: Of a great jew First Line: The mail gets heavier Last Line: As the centuries fall %away %in their rotten %swift %luxury MAILBAG First Line: A schizophrenic Last Line: I've been to %austin MAIN COURSE First Line: Jesus christ,' he told me, 'you know rita and I split up' MAKING IT First Line: I was a frenetic wretch of a man Last Line: Side by side %together MAMA First Line: Here I am %in the ground Last Line: He is %very bad %company MAN AT THE PIANO First Line: The man at the piano Last Line: The %black swan burns MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT First Line: Fuck, he was small MAN IN THE SUN First Line: She reads to me from the new yorker Last Line: That you have been wasting %your time MAN WITH THE BEAUTIFUL EYES First Line: When we were kids Last Line: Many people %would have to %die MAN'S BEST FRIEND First Line: I told the guy - he was watering his lawn Last Line: You gotta know I liked him plenty MAN? First Line: My daughter said this when she was 5 Last Line: Sang and %laughed, me loudest MANX First Line: Have we gone wrong again? Last Line: That none of us %can see MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA First Line: We are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an MASSES First Line: All the bitter, miserable, lonely people feeling short-changed Last Line: It hurts the very earth, it hurts everything %this waste %the horror of all this %waste MASTER PLAN First Line: Starving in a philadelphia winter MAYBE TOMORROW First Line: Looked like %bogart Last Line: Bogie's not dead %yet MAYBE WE'LL SEE First Line: Sometime soon Last Line: From doing things %to ourselves ME First Line: Women don't know how to love Last Line: Into the other room ME AGAINST THE WORLD First Line: When I was a kid Last Line: Then I felt better %much better ME AND CAPOTE First Line: When the phone rings it's usually a man's Last Line: That's the best way to get unlisted ME AND MY BUDDY First Line: I can still see us MEAN AND STINGY First Line: Oh, we don't give enough parties Last Line: I'll hang up this poem MEANING OF IT ALL First Line: Born next to cold dogs and Last Line: Born again %and %again and again MEEK HAVE INTERITED First Line: If I suffer at this Last Line: Some suicides are never %recorded MELANCHOLIA First Line: The history of melancholia Last Line: There is something wrong with me %besides %melancholia MELT-DOWN First Line: Hemingway %when he couldn't write Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) MEMORY First Line: I've memorized all the fish in the sea Last Line: The courage of my memory MENTION OF SOME LUCKY PAY-OFFS First Line: One of the things about being a writer Last Line: Let me go on to %other %subject matter MERMAID First Line: I had to come to the bathroom for something Last Line: Something %and I left MERRY, MERRY First Line: Now let's see %who's on my christmas list Last Line: And then, my friend, there's you MESSAGE First Line: I've been sitting in this Last Line: It might be %with death MET A MAN ON THE STREET First Line: Who said, you've kept me going for two Last Line: But I only write that stuff %I can't read %it METAMORPHOSIS First Line: A girlfriend came in Last Line: I have been robbed of %my filth MICE First Line: My father caught the baby mice Last Line: My father had won again MIRACLE First Line: I have just listened to this MIRACLE IS THE SHORTEST TIME First Line: You know %it was very good Last Line: As these walls %so quietly %shift MIRACLE MAN First Line: In this neighborhood %about 4 blocks north Last Line: And here's %this saint %without a name MIRROR GAME First Line: Peter was the freak, peter was fat, peter Last Line: It seldom works the way we think it %works. %in fact, it never %does MOANING AND GROANING First Line: She writes: you'll Last Line: Close the doors %groan MOCKINGBIRD First Line: The mockingbird had been following the cat Last Line: To bargain it to another place %summer was over MODEL First Line: I want to be like that Last Line: For over 70 years %now MODERN LIFE First Line: Just lost another poem in this Last Line: As he market went %down %and van gogh %up MOMENT First Line: For wagner the gods of valhalla also burn in the Last Line: And touch the %cat %impossible MONKEY First Line: One summer saturday afternoon Last Line: Something would %turn %up MORE ARGUMENT First Line: Rilke, she said, don't you love rilke? Last Line: Grieg. Nothing changed. Nothing %ever changed. Nothing MORE MAIL First Line: I get more and more mail, much of it gibberish Last Line: I know that means %trouble too. %worse trouble. %believe me MORNING LOVE First Line: I awakened about 10:30 a.M. Last Line: Belly and never said another word MOST First Line: Here comes the fishhead singing Last Line: Don't call back! You sound like a jerk! MOTHER AND PRINCESS TINA First Line: We knew it was a tourist trap, of course, but sometimes you %go in %anyway Last Line: Leg and when the food finally arrived it wasn't %very much either MOUNTAIN First Line: In high school the classes were arranged alphabetically and burns Last Line: Class of summer %'39 MOVIE CRITICS First Line: My mother always said she thought he was %cute %this frenchman Last Line: As a family %me %my mother %my father %had %nothing %in common %in or out of the movies %and it neve MOVING TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY First Line: It was a new year's eve party at my place Last Line: I walked out - to face the %people MOVING UP THE LADDER First Line: My editor and publisher (to be) %found me one day, I was a pile of human rubble Last Line: Nor hardly as easy to %dump %or %forget %but much easier, of%course, to write %about, and I %did MUGGED First Line: Finished Last Line: Useless %after %all MURDER First Line: Competition, greed, desire for fame MUSINGS First Line: The temple of my doorway is Last Line: Hell never stops it only pauses. %this is a pause. %enjoy it while you can MY 3 BEST FRIENDS First Line: The first is just a bum Last Line: So much less than the mad or %the nearly mad? MY BEST FRIEND First Line: Dragging a cardboard suitcase %to the marching music of roominhouse Last Line: Setting the bottle down %again: %each man %beats %the odds %in a different %fashion MY BIG FLING First Line: It was a bad night Last Line: And we left it %like that MY BIG MOMENT First Line: I was a packer in a factory east of Last Line: That I'd never be able to do anything %like that again MY BUDDY (1) First Line: For a 21-year-old boy in new orleans I wasn't worth MY BUDDY (2) First Line: Sitting under this %light %looking at the %buddha Last Line: The buddha is this statue of %porcelain %sitting across %from me %tonight %as the poems %do not %arr MY BUDDY IN VALET PARKING AT THE RACE TRACK First Line: After 9 long races among greedy faces Last Line: I smile for the first time in 7 or %8 hours MY BUDDY, THE BUDDHA First Line: I must wash this buddha that sits on my desk Last Line: How did he get in %here MY CAT, THE WRITER First Line: As I am sitting in front of this MY COMPANION First Line: Pissing in the toilet bowl Last Line: Rapidly %five times %then %stops MY COMPUTER First Line: What? They say, you got a Last Line: Who lost her %sheep %or her %computer MY COMRADES First Line: This one teaches Last Line: Lowest of the breed MY DOCTOR First Line: I walked into the waiting room Last Line: A horrible woman %his wife was MY FATHER First Line: Was a truly amazing man %he pretended to be %rich Last Line: Like and oddity of the earth %like a hundred thounsand oddities %like millions of other oddities %wa MY FATHER First Line: He carried a piece of Last Line: For the first time %I sang MY FATHER AND THE BUM First Line: My father believed in work Last Line: Toynbee would find hard %to deny MY FATHER WANTED ME TO BE A MECHANICAL DRAFTSMAN BUT First Line: I decided to be a writer Last Line: All the scabs and blackheads were worth it MY FATHER'S BIG-TIME FLING First Line: I came home from grammar school Last Line: And it made me %very happy MY FAVORITE MOVIE First Line: I used to like the guy who played the piano Last Line: Spread out all over the place MY FIRST AFFAIR WITH THAT OLDER WOMAN First Line: When I look back now MY FIRST COMPUTER POEM First Line: Have I gone the way of the deathly death Last Line: So this is the beginning %not the %end MY FRIEND First Line: I loved bar room fights Last Line: It's as decent a thing as a man %can know MY FRIEND, ANDRE First Line: This kid used to teach at kansas u Last Line: Isn't so painful %after all MY FRIEND, HOWIE First Line: Had worse luck with women than most, finally married, they had a baby Last Line: The glow of his cigar through the windshield and I don't know about him but I hurt almost like it al MY FRIEND, THE PARKING LOT ATTENDANT First Line: He's a dandy Last Line: Fellow like that, chances are he just moved on %to better %things MY FRIENDS DOWN AT THE CORNER First Line: Dirty little bugger Last Line: A newspaper and a few beers? MY GARDEN First Line: In the sun and in the rain Last Line: Blooming all the time MY GERMAN BUDDY First Line: Tonight Last Line: Chill %he's here %now MY GROUPIE First Line: I read last saturday in the Last Line: Whether it's good poetry or bad acid MY LITERARY FLY First Line: 115 degrees %not even a turkey could be happy in this heat Last Line: Immortal stuff, but it's just too hot for me. %let him MY MAIL First Line: Keeps evolving and there is more Last Line: They only want to %make sure MY MOVIE First Line: My movies are getting better finally Last Line: But you still ought to read my poems %and see it MY NON-AMBITIOUS AMBITION First Line: My father had little sayings which he mostly emitted [or, shared] Last Line: How beautifully I've succeeded %at %that MY OLD MAN First Line: 16 years old Last Line: As we ever got MY STYLE First Line: I watch the jocks come out in the post parade Last Line: Some would claim that I have succeeded %in this MY UNCLE JACK First Line: My uncle jack Last Line: Is your car jack and your fingernails and the scream of the biggest %mountain now MY VANISHING ACT First Line: When I got sick of the bar MY WORST REJECTION SLIP First Line: Came to me when I was living in Last Line: Somebody with %more common %sense NAKED AT 92 DEGREES First Line: Little to do on a hot night but swat at Last Line: Imagination to %even %scream NANA First Line: She has fucked 200 men in ten states Last Line: Earth for the past %5000 years NATURE POEM First Line: You are 50,000 light years Last Line: Looking at the white flower NAZI First Line: Suicide Last Line: God's mark %like a swastika NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE First Line: I'm at the racetrack every day Last Line: Shakespeare had it right NEON First Line: Today at the track they gave Last Line: A day-glow %inferno of %festering %hell NERVES First Line: Twitching in the sheets -- Last Line: I hate the mornings more than %any man NERVOUS PEOPLE First Line: You go in for an item - take it to the clerk at the register - he NEW HOMELESS First Line: I've %been driving down this tree-lined street for Last Line: Some will %always be %classically %screwed NEW WAR First Line: A different fight now, warding off the weariness of age Last Line: Paris in the dark NEW WOMAN First Line: You are sitting with the new Last Line: Billy thong had killed it %before I did NICE DAY First Line: The virus holds %the concepts give way like rotten Last Line: In the blazing midday of %mourning NICE TRY First Line: Best dream I ever Last Line: An angel %some other %time NIGHT CAP First Line: There is no avenging angel or red burning devil Last Line: In the thirties %thank you NIGHT I FUCKED MY ALARM CLOCK First Line: Once %starving in philadelphia Last Line: And the light in their kitchen was %out NIGHT I SAW GEORGE RAFT IN VEGAS First Line: I bet on #6, I try red, I stare at the women's legs and breasts Last Line: We walk back to the car and fall asleep NIGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE Last Line: Everything is the same agai NIGHT ON A VISA CARD First Line: I finished my wine Last Line: Without having %to say %anything NIGHT QUARTERHORSE RACING, HOLLYWOOD PARK First Line: The well-to-do whites have gone %south to del mar Last Line: The poor whites %are, that's no %problem %as for those others: no %big deal, dude, just pick a %numb NIGHT SCHOOL First Line: In the drunk driver's class Last Line: I am the class %intellectual NIGHT SWEATS First Line: It was all right at first when I moved here: on the third Last Line: Even my woman isn't here tonight NIGHTS AND YEARS First Line: The days of hell arrive on schedule Last Line: Only hell lives %on NILE RUNS NORTH First Line: I walked into the men's crapper Last Line: Observation put to action %is the essence %of art NIRVANA First Line: Not much chance Last Line: Tires %in the %snow NO CHANCE IN POMONA First Line: On a half-mile track in a mile and one-sixteenth race Last Line: The crowd had it figured right %but not quite NO CHARGE First Line: This babe in the grandstand Last Line: They charge %50 cents NO DICE First Line: Reading poetry in this poetry magazine Last Line: She looks at me. 'I know,' she answers NO GURU First Line: I keep getting phone calls from the Last Line: Another great book in the works for %barnes and noble NO HELP FOR THAT First Line: There is a place in the heart that NO LADY GODIVA First Line: She came to my place drunk Last Line: Issued by a better %world NO LOVE SONGS First Line: Dear editor: I realize I missed the deadline but I've been beset Last Line: And as I dumped I remember I had missed your deadline and decided %to write and tell you about that, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, ESPECIALLY AROUND HOLLYWOOD PARK First Line: Well, I used valet parking at the track, it's only NO MORE, NO LESS First Line: Editor, critic, bigot, wit Last Line: This paper %and all the %etceteras NO NONSENSE Poem Text First Line: Faulkner loved his whiskey Last Line: He trashed / it Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse NO NONSENSE First Line: Faulkner loved his whiskey Last Line: And if it didn't %contain a %check %he trashed %it Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Faulkner, William (1897-1962) NO RETURN ADDRESS First Line: I am perishable and that's the best Last Line: The last frog puffs and %jumps NO SALE First Line: I just sat in the bar Last Line: I had no argument %with %that NO TITLE First Line: All theories %like cliches Last Line: Wish us luck NO WIN First Line: To live in a jungle Last Line: That's what this life %is NO WING HIGH First Line: I was sitting on a barstool in the '8-count,' not particulary thinking Last Line: Over the harbor freeway to check out the action. It looked slow but %I was still fairly pleased with NO. 6 First Line: I'll settle for the 6 horse Last Line: Like the opening %of flowers NOBODY HOME First Line: I live in this nice place Last Line: One of them is going to change NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN First Line: Stupefied after a week's drinking and Last Line: Stone cold crazy %once again NON-URGENT POEM First Line: I had this fellow write me that NOT FROM THE SAME MOULD First Line: That night %he'd been driving %naked %on the freeway %had a blowout Last Line: Some more talented %in their ways %than the overnumerous %duly %dully %sane NOT ALL THAT BAD First Line: Was sitiing here, drinking a glass of Last Line: And you can't %spit them %out NOT LISTED First Line: My horse was the grey NOT MUCH SINGING First Line: I have it, looking to my left, the cars of this Last Line: This night of gentle quiet and %a not very good poem %about it NOT NORMAL First Line: When I was in grammar school Last Line: Which looked far better %than %any of %them NOT SO GOOD NIGHT IN THE SAN PEDRO OF THE WORLD First Line: It's unlikely that a decent poem is in me Last Line: Let us celebrate the stupidity of our %endurance NOT TO WORRY First Line: He sits there %big in hs chair Last Line: Named the %baby: %nero NOTE LEFT ON THE DRESSER BY A LADY FRIEND First Line: Wine: at present you are buying about 60 bottles Last Line: Get ready, %get set, %go! NOTE ON REJECTION SLIPS First Line: It is not very good Last Line: If I %have %one NOTE ON THE MASSES First Line: Private hells made public Last Line: Consider yourself %blessed in the %dark NOTE TO A LADY WHO EXPECTED RUPERT BROOKE First Line: Wha', what did you expect? A schoolboy lisping donne? Or Last Line: The revolution? Must join the brigade! %lemme outa here! NOTE TO THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM: First Line: I get more and more mimeo chapbooks in the mail Last Line: Just as my women have %done NOTE UPON THE LOVE LETTERS OF BEETHOVEN: First Line: Think: if ludwig were alive today Last Line: Ever find his %beloved NOTES UPON A HOT STREAK First Line: I have been driving to the racetrack Last Line: I smile and drive on in NOTHING First Line: When I was in Last Line: That %made sense NOTHING IS AS EFFECTIVE AS DEFEAT First Line: Always carry a notebook with you Last Line: Of them: he could sure %talk about %it NOVELS First Line: The older sister of the woman I was going with was fat Last Line: And that was the end of the whole sad story NOW (1) First Line: To reach here Last Line: The mornings are the worst NOW (2) First Line: Well, %now some eat to forget and some drink to forget and some Last Line: Fingernails %he's %the best NOW (3) First Line: I had boils the size of tomatoes Last Line: Like I have it %now NOW SHE'S FREE First Line: Cleo's going to make it now Last Line: He just doesn't know what he's missing NOW, IF YOU WERE TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING, HE ASKED, WHAT First Line: I'd tell them to have an unhappy love Last Line: Right up the pickle %barrel NOWHERE First Line: Well, where are they? %the hemingways, the t.S. Eliots, the pounds Last Line: I look around and %I look %and I say:where are the writers? NUMB YOUR ASS AND YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR HEART First Line: I was coming off an affair that had gone badly Last Line: In a week and a half NURSES First Line: At the hospital that I have been %going to %the nurses seem %overweight Last Line: For these ladies are truly %over-fed:%they have seen %too much %death O TEMPORA! O MORES! First Line: I get these girly magazines in the mail because Last Line: In the long v vormation %in the bright freshness %of early morning OBSERVER First Line: Every time I drove past the hospital Last Line: That nobody ever %saw ODD First Line: Some nights %like this night Last Line: Waiting on death can be perfectly peaceful OFF AND ON First Line: At times I still consider coughing it up: gas pipe, 19th floor Last Line: Be %like right %now OH First Line: In the bar Last Line: Lightning %somebody %laughs OH YES First Line: I've been so OH, I WAS A LADIES' MAN First Line: You Last Line: Missed %at %all OH, YES First Line: There are worse things than Last Line: It's too late %and there's nothing worse %than %too late OLD First Line: I see the old men at the racetrack, they are bent, carry Last Line: In the grave to find a more %comfortable %position OLD BUDDY First Line: He writes to the editors Last Line: We were both %failed %writers OLD GANG First Line: Of course, we were all fucked-up, I was suicidal but hitting the Last Line: What other people say %about %writers OLD GUY IN THE PIANO BAR First Line: Doesn't know how bad he is in that Last Line: The sound of a %siren OLD HORSEPLAYER First Line: He wears the same pants Last Line: He's hooked on an %impossibility OLD JOCKEY First Line: When you no longer see their name on the program Last Line: And she was right OLD LOVE First Line: Now her hair is white %she's only in her mid-40s Last Line: Yeah, she's something else,' I said ad poured 2 glasses full OLD MAN WITH A CANE First Line: I was walking to %the betting window when I heard loud voices coming Last Line: Some days are much more interesting %than others OLD PINCH HITTER First Line: Comes out of the dugout in the last of the 9th Last Line: That shower is going to feel good OLD POET First Line: I would, of course, prefer to be with the fox in the ferns Last Line: Another old poet %going off OLD? First Line: I'll be 73 in august Last Line: You know what I %mean? ON AND OFF THE ROAD First Line: Flying into a strange town, being met at the Last Line: It's the only thing you can do ON BEING 20 First Line: My mother knocked on my roominghouse door Last Line: What they would. %they did ON BEING RECOGNIZED First Line: The young girl found me at the track Last Line: On the famous %writer ON BIOGRAPHIES First Line: If you're dead Last Line: Long %to do %it %anyhow ON BUMS AND HEROES First Line: I've thought about e. E. Cummings sitting on his front Last Line: The chances get less and less ON GOING OUT TO GET THE MAIL First Line: The drool noon %where squadrons of worms creep up like Last Line: Nothing, I answer what's for %breakfast? ON LIGHTING A CIGAR First Line: We ask for no mercy and no miracles Last Line: And death is useless ON SHAVING First Line: Miraculous %to grow old Last Line: The mirror on the wall ON SHOOTING First Line: I think I'd like to put one Last Line: Mabel, you %whore ON THE BUM First Line: Moving from city to city Last Line: All the lights %turned %out ON THE CIRCUIT First Line: It was up in san francisco Last Line: Going down the hill ON THE CONTINENT First Line: I'm soft. I %dream too. Last Line: Snapshots, and the %finished sonnet ON THE HUSTLE First Line: I suppose %one of the worst times was Last Line: The truth, at %last ON THE REBOUND First Line: So often, he said after a split Last Line: Pray that you are right, he %answered, I need a %rest ON THE SIDEWALK AND IN THE SUN First Line: I have seen an old man around town recently Last Line: I would never see him again ONE FOR OLD SNAGGLE-TOOTH First Line: I know a woman Last Line: Frances, this poem is for you ONE FOR SHERWOOD ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I forget about him and his peculiar Last Line: He was as far away from fitzgerald as he was / from paris Subject(s): Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941); Writing & Writers ONE FOR SHERWOOD ANDERSON First Line: Sometimes I forget about him and his peculiar Last Line: And nobody ever talks about his life or %his death Subject(s): Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941); Writing And Writers ONE FOR THE OLD BOY First Line: He was just a Last Line: Know %about. %that's %all ONE FOR THE SHOESHINE MAN First Line: The balance is preserved by the snails climbing the Last Line: And the hedges will tell you %so ONE MORE GOOD ONE First Line: To be writing poetry at the age of 50 Last Line: Crazy at the age of 50, %I send it home ONE OF THE HOTTEST First Line: She wore a platinum blond wig Last Line: She left her teeth in all %night long ONE OF THOSE First Line: Satre was some fellow, oh yes Last Line: Jean paul %thanks %for %everything ONE OUT First Line: Men on second and third ONE TO THE BREASTPLATE First Line: I have a saying, 'the tough ones always come back.' Last Line: Roadmap as we sip our %diet schlitz ONE-TO-FIVE First Line: I know honor racing Last Line: Nor anywhere else where %humans dwell ONLY LIFE First Line: I was like one of those nuts from centuries past, I was Last Line: Else, whether it comes back, whether it stays and when %it ends, ha %ha ONLY ONE CERVANTES First Line: It's no use, I've got to admit Last Line: Is better then not writing %at all OPEN ALL NIGHT First Line: On a train somewhere in europe, down to the last drink, the Last Line: Dreamless and unsatisfied %like almost all the other people OPEN CANVAS First Line: Listening to organ music on the radio Last Line: Touches the keys and %is taken %again ORDER First Line: I've cleaned this room up Last Line: I can't %come %either ORDERLY First Line: I am sitting on a tin chair outside the x-ray lab as death Last Line: Lost as a human %long gone down some %numbing road %but %he's healthy %he's healthy %he's healthy! ORDINARY CAFE OF THE WORLD First Line: New worlds shine in the dust Last Line: To be crazy alone forever ORDINARY POEM First Line: Since you've always wanted OTHER ROOM First Line: There is always somebody in the other room Last Line: Sometimes there isn't anybody here at all OUR CURIOUS POSITION First Line: Saroyan on his deathbed said Last Line: I don't believe %either OUR LAUGHTER IS MUTED BY THEIR AGONY First Line: As the child crosses the street as deep as deep sea divers OUR WORLD First Line: It's strange, isn't it Last Line: Ever more %their bloody %pollen OUT OF PLACE First Line: I always knew that there was something wrong Last Line: I accepted the situation and %waited OUT OF THE ARMS... First Line: Out of the arms of one love Last Line: It's much more pleasant to hear your name whispered in %the dark OUT OF THE BLUE First Line: She phoned me from a far away Last Line: One of these days OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM First Line: After mickey's wife goes to work Last Line: And feeling like a total %asshole OVER DONE First Line: He had somehow located me again - he was on the OVER-POPULATION First Line: I'll say one thing: her older sister wrote Last Line: Why there are so many of us Variant Title(s): Overt Populatio OVERHEAD MIRRORS First Line: I wouldn't say it was a particularly low time, it was Last Line: Other people %were doing OWL First Line: I saw an owl tonight Last Line: I may never see an owl %again P.O. BOX 11946, FRESNO, CALIF. 90731 First Line: Drove in from the track after losing $50. Last Line: On the way %out P.O. BOX 11946, FRESNO, CALIF. 93776 First Line: Drove in from the track after losing $50. PACE IS THE ESSENCE First Line: As the mailman walked up the hill Last Line: Back watering the %gladiolas PACIFIC TELEPHONE First Line: You go for these wenches, she said Last Line: More vicious than any of them PACK First Line: The dogs are at it again; they leap and Last Line: Even though you are one %of them %now PACT First Line: I called up harry and his girlfriend Last Line: To wait for %besides morning PALE PINK PORSCHE First Line: She's gotten very fat %since we split a year ago Last Line: To another lost lady in %galveston, %texas PALM LEAVES First Line: At exactly 12:00 midnight Last Line: But I have lived %it through PAPER ON THE FLOOR First Line: The drawing is poor and I know little of the plot Last Line: And thrown away PARADE First Line: The waving of hands, the posturing of the Last Line: There's no answer to %that PARIS First Line: Was just like not being there Last Line: A fashion magazine in a %train station PARIS First Line: Never %even in calmer times %have I ever %dreamed of bicycling through that cit Last Line: Wearing a beret %and camus %always %pissed %me %off PARIS, WHAT First Line: You want to get stiffed? He asked Last Line: Brahms' %2nd %sent %this %one PARKED First Line: Sitting in my car Last Line: And dutch van gogh PARTY'S OVER First Line: After you've pulled off the tablecloth with PASSING OF A GREAT ONE First Line: He was the only living writer I met who I truly PASTORAL First Line: Listening to a piano and a Last Line: It is ever %going to %get PATRIOT OF LIFE First Line: The old guy %next door Last Line: Of the darkness %retreat PAYOFF First Line: I was to give a poetry reading Last Line: Have been. But only the two of us %knew it PEACE First Line: Near the corner table in the Last Line: Flower %in the %night PEOPLE First Line: Look at the people: elbows, knees Last Line: What I am here for PEOPLE First Line: All people start to Last Line: Say the true %clay %words PERNICIOUS ANEMIA First Line: I could rest on the past, %there are many books %on the shelves Last Line: Let there be light! %let there be me! %I will beat %the odds%one more %time PERSHING SQUARE, LOS ANGELES, 1939 First Line: One orator proving there was a god Last Line: And I was young and mean and %lean %and I would never be that way %again %as it rushed toward %us PHILLIPE'S 1950 First Line: Phillipe's is an old time Last Line: You can see the most beautiful faces %in town PHOTOGRAPHS First Line: They photograph you on your porch Last Line: Looking into and at their eyes and souls %and more PICK - 6 First Line: The little old men Last Line: So tired %every night PILE-UP First Line: The 3 horse clipped the heels of Last Line: 3 winners in a %single race PISS First Line: Remember once I was sitting in this hotel Last Line: We were always arguing about %something PLACE DIDN'T LOOK BAD First Line: She had hugh thighs Last Line: As she put mozart %on PLACE IN PHILLY First Line: There's nothing like being young Last Line: Certainly %will be %more %masterpieces PLACE TO GO First Line: You can take your girlfriend who is wearing %a red hat Last Line: You don't even have to argue with %your girlfriend PLACE TO HANG OUT First Line: To be young, foolish, poor and ugly Last Line: Department store,' she called me PLANTS WHICH EASILY WINTER KILLS First Line: Plants which easily winter kills Last Line: The sawfish does not attack whales PLATE GLASS WINDOW First Line: Dogs and angels are not Last Line: All up and %down %inside the %darkness %here PLATONIC First Line: She wanted a platonic afternoon and I said, all right Last Line: And started looking for %mine PLAYER First Line: I had 40 win on the 6 horse PLAYERS First Line: It's down at a track near the border and it's called Last Line: Hope for that real, live action PLAYING IT OUT First Line: There are only two men I can really Last Line: Bark %night into morning PLAYTIME First Line: Went to a japanese restaurant with my Last Line: Plenty of time to really %fuck up %I %yawned PLEASANT AFTERNOON IN BED First Line: Red summers and black satin Last Line: And it is very %funny PLEASE First Line: Save me from them Last Line: And stretch their legs %through my %space PLEASED TO MEET YOU First Line: Og my god,' she said, 'jean don carlo!' Last Line: It is like nothing %sitting down PLEASURES OF THE DAMNED Last Line: Everything wet %everything fine POEM First Line: They all keep publishing poems Last Line: To the end of his %rope %huh? POEM ABOUT A LADY WITH A RED FACE AND LONG BLONDE HAIR First Line: I met this female poet many years ago Last Line: Me, not to go to bed with any body %around because there's %nothing else to do POEM FOR LOST DOGS First Line: That good rare feeling comes at the oddest times:once, after %sleeping Last Line: Good rare feelings come at the oddest times, like now as I tell %you all of this POEM FOR MY 71ST BIRTHDAY First Line: Yes, I'm still here, doing about what I've always Last Line: Tbe big guy doesn't have me %out of here %yet POEM FOR SWINGERS First Line: I like women who haven't lived with too many men Last Line: But please leave the good women alone POEM, POEM, POEM, POEM First Line: Fellow I know, %(I know him well, it's me) Last Line: She called me %selfish. %fuck her POET IN NEW YORK First Line: Eating out tonight Last Line: Fairly %fine POETRY First Line: It Last Line: Read %it POETRY CONTEST First Line: Send as many poems as you wish, only Last Line: The place where winter %died POETRY READING First Line: Look at them Last Line: The man answers. %the reading is over POETRY READINGS Poem Text First Line: Poetry readings have to be some of the saddest Last Line: But / these Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READINGS First Line: Poetry readings have to be some of the saddest Last Line: Anything %anything %but %these Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETS AND THE FOREMAN First Line: The best of auden Last Line: Just as I had suspected %in the %beginning POLISH SAUSAGE First Line: Come on, she said, I want you to meet my friends Last Line: Below the left tit. %then I felt better POOR AL First Line: I don't know how he does it POOR MIMI First Line: Poor mimi trochi Last Line: What the trouble was POORLY NIGHT First Line: You came out, she said Last Line: How many dead beasts float and walk from wales to %los angeles? POPCORN IN THE DARK First Line: I remember that night she came over,' Last Line: It's time for popcorn in the dark POST TIME First Line: Some of the old rich still make it to Last Line: More beautiful than all the world %and it %begins POSTCARD First Line: She writes as if it was yesterday or a week ago but it's been Last Line: Exhale a wondrous blue waft of smoke as from my radio applause %breaks through upon the conclusion o POVERTY First Line: It is the man you've never seen who Last Line: But nowhere %a living man POWERS THAT BE First Line: There was a crowd at this dinner Last Line: I was sitting with talented %shit PRACTICE First Line: In that depression neighborhood I had two buddies PRACTICE First Line: Thinking more and more Last Line: Any number %of times PRAIRIE HOUSES First Line: Unreasonable lenses refract the Last Line: Robust nipples the gossamer hair PRAYER IN BAD WEATHER First Line: By god, I don't know what to Last Line: Listening to the rain PREPARATION First Line: You've got to burn Last Line: For a tiny %blinking %moment PRETTY BOY First Line: We drank together Last Line: I drank the %cold beer PRETTY GIRL WHO RENTED ROOMS First Line: Down in new orleans Last Line: And a window %in the room PRICE First Line: Drinking 15 dollar champagne -- Last Line: And says, sure you can PRIEST AND THE MATADOR First Line: In the slow mexican air I watched the bull die Last Line: Believing all and nothing -- perhaps, now, they will %die in mine PRIVATE FIRST CLASS First Line: They took my man off the street Last Line: Him. The cops took him %in. No %good PROBABLY SO First Line: Tonight %I have 2 spiders clinging to a crack in the wall Last Line: Who lives like this? PROBLEM First Line: We met for dinner Last Line: We don't have %any friends %at all %sarah %said PROBLEMS ABOUT THE OTHER WOMAN First Line: I had worked my charms on her Last Line: The last time I ever have %to PROBLEMS IN THE CHECKOUT LINE First Line: Often in the supermarket checkout line Last Line: Has very little to do %with anything else PRODUCED AND BOTTLED BY First Line: Bleakly wandering flat white fields Last Line: That's something rare PROFESSIONALS First Line: Constipated writers %squatting over their machines Last Line: And eager readers who need plenty of new shit. %it's depressing PROFESSORS First Line: Sitting with the professors Last Line: There'll be a %good crowd %they tell me PROMENADE First Line: Each night Last Line: The moon when there is a %moon PROMENADE First Line: I am taking a walk about 2:30 p.M. Last Line: I hope they fix their %engine PROMISE First Line: She bent over the side of the bed Last Line: Well, I guess I'll just have to %paint 40 more PROUD THIN DYING First Line: I see old people on pensions in the Last Line: Gets a taste of honey %then the knife PUKING LADY First Line: We were around 14, baldy Last Line: Bedroom %tired of it %all PULL A STRING, A PUPPET MOVES... First Line: Each man must realize Last Line: And you'll answer: I don't know, %I don't know PULLED DOWN SHADE First Line: What I like about you Last Line: Great %let's play %scrabble PUTREFACTION Poem Text Recitation First Line: Of late Last Line: And we can't even / cry Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence PUTREFACTION First Line: Of late Subject(s): Decay PUTTING IT TO BED First Line: The first poem is the last poem is the Last Line: The last poem %the best for me PUZZLE First Line: I was driving on the freeway Last Line: The traffic was bad too PUZZLE First Line: My neighbor is a nice guy but he utterly Last Line: Against what they %are %doing...' QUESTION AND ANSWER First Line: He sat naked and drunk in a room of summer Last Line: Another %spin QUIET First Line: Sitting tonight QUIET CLEAN GIRLS IN GINGHAM DRESSES First Line: All I've ever known are whores, ex-prostitutes Last Line: As the whores keep finding me QUIET IN A QUIET NIGHT First Line: I an feel myself getting fat, old and Last Line: There is no more %no less QUOTABLE First Line: She is an old woman Last Line: They still have a %rather %sturdy %worth RACE First Line: It is like this Last Line: The way love used to RACETRACK SALUTES YOU First Line: Military day Last Line: We hope you win %this time RADIO WITH GUTS First Line: It was on the 2nd floor on coronado street Last Line: While the music played RAGS, BOTTLES, SACKS First Line: As a boy %I remember the sound %of:'rags! Bottles! Sacks!' Last Line: He was %the first man %I ever wanted to %kill %and %there have been %none %since RAILROAD YARD First Line: The feelings I get Last Line: Whenever you can %not needing a reason RAIN OR SHINE First Line: The vultures at the zoo Last Line: That day, I did RAPE First Line: The free verse poets whispered Last Line: My failure to ravish julia RAPE OF THE HOLY MOTHER First Line: To expose your ass on paper %terrifies some %and %it should: Last Line: Centuries of the inbred %dead %let it be known that %we have arrived and %intent to %stay RAW First Line: My poems are raw %like the guts of a catfish Last Line: But never let them %get in the %way RAW WITH LOVE First Line: Little dark girl with Last Line: Mine and I won't use it yet RE-EVALUATION First Line: He told me he had been Last Line: I've always been better at %picking horses %than at %picking%people REAL BREAK First Line: I've heard it said that you Last Line: How about %it %huh RECOGNIZED First Line: I was at the airport Last Line: To greet those we knew and those %who knew %us RED First Line: He runs a bookstore %just off hollywood boulevard Last Line: Frederick's left, %there's still a little %bit of the old %paris %and a large touch of %class: %red RED MERCEDES First Line: Naturally, we are all caught in RED PORSCHE First Line: It feels good Last Line: The luck of the fool is %inviolate RED TENNIS SHOES First Line: He sits %3 or 4 rows %below me %his hand %trembles %as he takes a cigar Last Line: He consults the %yellow %paper %again %he's going to %give it another %try %and I am %too RED UP AND DOWN First Line: Red hair %real Last Line: Not mad enough %to become %women RELEASE First Line: Went to a shrink about his writer's block and the shrink Subject(s): Psychiatry; Writer's Block RELENTLESS AS THE TARANTULA First Line: They're not going to let you RENT'S TOO HIGH First Line: There are beasts in the salt shaker Last Line: I can't live here much longer REPLACEMENTS First Line: Jack london drinking his life away while Last Line: The life so dying of %thirst Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; London, Jack (1876-1916) REPLY First Line: Green dogs, dinosaur sky, serpent of hope Last Line: Packed with blood and dust REST PERIOD First Line: He lay in his bed and he was a great Last Line: Vultures seldom are blessed with immorality RESULT First Line: The room was small but neat and when I visited him Last Line: One of the magnificent things of %our century RETIRED First Line: Pork chops, said my father, I love RETREAT First Line: Well %if you didn't call for an enema Last Line: To %walk out of %here RETREAT First Line: This time has finished me Last Line: Did she get him too RETURNING TO AN OLD LOVE First Line: Well, here the computer is down again for Last Line: Be a lady %tonight REUNION First Line: The cat sprayed in my Last Line: From the %old boy REVOLT IN THE RANKS First Line: I have just spent one-hour-and-a-half Last Line: Machine and nothing happens. %like now RIFT First Line: I can't live with you anymore' RIGHT NOW First Line: The party's over, the rooster is Last Line: Empty of the sound of the %moment RIVERS First Line: The rivers of hell are mine, they aren't yours Last Line: Maybe %forever %so be %it ROACHES First Line: The great editor and his wife were testing me Last Line: The editor's wife got up to fetch the %first bottle of wine for that %night ROCK First Line: Here were all these males tuning their guitars Last Line: It was full of %ashes ROCK First Line: I will not name this poet although his blood-red and dark Last Line: There are none %left ROLL THE DICE First Line: If you're going to try, go all the way Last Line: The only good fight %there is ROOM First Line: Nothing changes Last Line: The door is %open ROOM 106 First Line: Came to town in the middle of the night Last Line: And just like that I %am %asleep ROSARY Poem Text First Line: My father was a man full of small Last Line: I still thought her / beautiful Subject(s): Fathers; Rosary ROSARY First Line: My father was a man full of small Last Line: The way to a man's heart is %through his %stomach Subject(s): Fathers; Rosary ROSSINI, MOZART AND SHOSTAKOVICH First Line: Are who I will hear tonight Last Line: And red grange is dead ROYAL STANDARD First Line: Bad nights can't be cured by bad poems, you Last Line: And tell you and %it %about all that RUIN First Line: William saroyan said, 'I ruined my %life by marrying the same woman twice' Last Line: As the gladiola, the %rainbow %the hurricane %and nothing %left %on the kitchen %shelf RUNNING ON EMPTY First Line: Do you see %the tired plants? Last Line: The hangman swinging in the wind. %now you see SAD POEM First Line: I live in a middle class neighborhood of an unfashionable Last Line: Which is no way to conduct any type of business, %even this one SAFE First Line: The house next door makes me Last Line: Bodies and little %else SANDRA First Line: Is the slim tall Last Line: I hope she finds %one SANDWICH First Line: I walked down the street for a submarine Last Line: With my belly hanging out over %my belt SARDINES IN STRIPED DRESSES First Line: All right, they're playing beethoven again; when I was Last Line: Holding, just now, the luck of us all SATURDAY AFTERNOON First Line: We must have been 14 or 15 Last Line: Absolutely nothing else for me to do SAVE THE PIER First Line: You shoulda been at this party Last Line: Exactly. You should have been %there. %sorry SAVE THE TREES First Line: I think there's no doubt that if SAVIOR: 1970 First Line: He comes by unexpectedly Last Line: I am my own keeper SCARLET First Line: I'm glad when they arrive Last Line: I'll take care of it %later SCENE FROM 1940 First Line: I knew you were a bad-ass,' he said Last Line: Praise was the only thing I couldn't handle SCHOOL DAYS First Line: I'm in bed Last Line: On the way to %nursery school SCHUBERT First Line: When I was much younger than I am now Last Line: You get a lot of nuts who like to %watch those art movies SCIENCE OF PHYSIOGNOMY First Line: Long gone along the way, faces Last Line: Long gone along the way SCREENING First Line: Arrived for the 2nd screening Last Line: Before it would ever get there SEARCHING FOR WHAT? First Line: As one goes to the racetrack year after year one notices Last Line: Your horse poems are? Nobody understands them!' %here's another SECRET First Line: Don't worry, nobody has the Last Line: The only possible %victory Subject(s): Men SECRET LAUGHTER First Line: The lair of the hunted is Last Line: Will not believe a great painting SECRET OF MY ENDURANCE First Line: I still get letters in the mail, mostly from cracked-up Last Line: My stuff is getting better than ever SEE HERE, YOU First Line: Blazing bastard fools Last Line: Circumstance %good %bye SEIZE THE DAY First Line: Foul fellow he was always wiping his nose on his SELF-INVITED First Line: Well, strap my ass on backwards, phone china Last Line: So I listen and they are %fulfilled SENSITIVE, YOUNG POET First Line: I never realized then what a good time I was having Last Line: I cured her of that SEX First Line: I am driving down wilton avenue Last Line: And I am left with %ludwig SEX AND / OR LOVE First Line: In my dreams %I can hit a home run almost Last Line: Think I wasn't %trying %at %all SEXPOT First Line: You know, she said, you were at Last Line: Over my right %eye SHAPE OF THE STAR First Line: Well, you know, he started out as a Last Line: Hollywood %what it %is Subject(s): Hollywood, California SHARE THE PAIN First Line: Got pissed with my landlord and landlady Last Line: Like a damn fool, I did, the revolution was a slow-time coming SHE CAME OUT OF THE BATHROOM WITH HER FLAMING RED HAIR First Line: The cops want me to come down and identify Last Line: I haven't seen your %comb SHE COMES FROM SOMEWHERE First Line: Probably from the bellybutton or from the shoe under the Last Line: Me, and that %old woman: sorrow SHE GOES FOR THE SPIN-OFF First Line: She comes rushing in Last Line: Then I'm alone %again SHE SAID First Line: What are you doing with all those Last Line: Listen, what's %wrong with you? %you act %depressed SHEEP First Line: In centuries past Last Line: Of the human %spirit SHIT TIME First Line: Half drunk Last Line: Pretending that I knew just as much %as the next %man SHOCK TREATMENT First Line: The fight I saw Last Line: Got up %and left %that time SHOES First Line: When you're young SHOOTING THE MOON IN THE EYE First Line: It was just a small room, no bathroom Last Line: Souls %and it loved %us SHORT STORY First Line: On this pleasant day %as our president speaks of his compassion for the poor Last Line: When not even the poor felt compassion %for themselves SHOT OF RED-EYE First Line: I used to hold my social security card Last Line: And the world %looked %terrible SHOW BIZ First Line: I can't have it Last Line: Is %one $day SHRINKING ISLAND First Line: I'm working on it as SHUT OUT First Line: They were putting them in the gate and I was SIBELIUS AND ETC First Line: Sick on a friday night while the discos rock of ass Last Line: What is he doing living with %a whore SICK First Line: I had this night job and I'd sit in bed Last Line: As I took out a cigarette, lit it and %listened SIDE OF THE SUN First Line: The bulls are grand as the side of the sun Last Line: And the eventual stench %is the world SILK First Line: Silken kneecaps Last Line: All the boys in the neighborhood SILVER MIRROR First Line: She pulls a large silver mirror Last Line: The universe is magnificent SIMILARITY First Line: Lost another 3 page poem to this computer Last Line: Which beats %none at %all %maybe SINGER First Line: This then %is the arena Last Line: In the last of your mind SINGULAR SELF First Line: There are these small cliffs Last Line: Looking for %another place SITTING IN A SANDWICH JOINT First Line: My daughter is most %glorious Last Line: Day, and she's %grinning SITTING WITH THE IBM First Line: Another still, hot summer night Last Line: Bushes and I pour more wine, more wine %more wine SKATERS First Line: I am sitting at a table in the mall drinking coffee while Last Line: Nicer, some are even worth %writing %about SKY SIGN First Line: The falcons have come to the city Last Line: As the telephone %rings SLAUGHTER First Line: The first seven rows were roped off for the counselors Last Line: Next saturday they'll bring in 3 new groups %and rope them off too SLICING HELL First Line: Listen, I forgive all you girls who used Last Line: As the great white shark whirls in captivity %with stunned eyes dumb, dumb stunned %eyes SLOPPY LOVE First Line: Sally was a sloppy %leaver. She was good with farewell Last Line: And then she'd get up and %have her turn SLOW NIGHT (1) First Line: The %cote de nuits-villages louis Last Line: And you are what is %killing me %now SLOW NIGHT (2) First Line: Caught out of focus Last Line: To join the good wife %who endures %me SLOW STARTER First Line: By the time I got good with things Last Line: Don't you almost feel it %now %I do SLUMP First Line: My editor-publisher %never complains %when I'm in a slump Last Line: The babe, dead-panned, %circling the %bases %with %little mincing %strides %once again SMALL CAFE First Line: You take a stool, unfold the paper, the waitress brings the Last Line: Then I back out, swing around and enter the %real world %again SMILING, SHINING, SINGING First Line: My daughter looked like a young katharine hepburn Last Line: But happy new year to %you all SMIRKING DARK First Line: When I buried my father, death stood there Last Line: As he stood %waiting SMOOTH First Line: Slowly driving the back streets of the town Last Line: I'm going to be mean to my woman and it's not going to be %her fault SNAILS First Line: My mother stood at the Last Line: Walked back to the %bedroom SNAILS First Line: My mother stood at the %window Last Line: Then I turned and %walked back to the %bedroom SNAKE EYES? First Line: It was not a good day Last Line: Thank you for reading %this far SNAKE-EYES First Line: William saroyan Last Line: Just %depending upon %which one %gets to him %first SNAP SNAP First Line: Oh, the ladies can get snappish Last Line: Chambers and %nobody's guilty SNAPSHOT (1985) First Line: Flailing away at infinity Last Line: They return to their %former %divertissements SNAPSHOTS AT THE TRACK First Line: I go to the men's crapper Last Line: Anyhow %right %right SNIVELER First Line: You're a sniveler, she said Last Line: Switched on the tv SO NOW First Line: The words have come and gone Last Line: Oh, I was once unbelievably %young SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER? Poem Text First Line: If it doesn't come bursting out of you Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Patience SOCIAL First Line: The blue pencil of the wave Last Line: March in to %meet her %friends SOCIAL BUTTERFLY First Line: I walked in and took a seat at the end of the counter and Last Line: And as she walked away again I stared at her ass and wondered why SOCIAL CALL First Line: To suffer the fanged indifference of the Last Line: And deserve no %better SOCIETY SHOULD REALIZE First Line: You consult psychiatrists and philosophers Last Line: Loved the night, mexico and %myself SOLDIER, THE WIFE AND THE BUM First Line: I was a bum in san francisco but once managed Last Line: Walls of our %darkness SOLID STATE MARTY First Line: He's almost 80 and they went to Last Line: And then it's time %for me %to go SOME LUCK, SOMEHOW First Line: I was already an old man Last Line: Of people %who don't know SOME NOTES ON BACH AND HAYDN First Line: It is quite something to turn your radio on low Last Line: This good night %is still everywhere SOME OF MY FATHERS First Line: There was %the one in the philly parts warehouse Last Line: And who had created %all these troubles %for me SOME OF MY READERS First Line: I liked it coming out of that expensive Last Line: Passionate ladies %of the night SOME PEOPLE First Line: Some people never go crazy Last Line: What truly horrible lives %they must lead SOME PICNIC First Line: Which reminds me Last Line: We drank them down SOME SUGGESTIONS First Line: In addition to the envy and the rancor of some of SOMEBODY ELSE First Line: He had long thin %arms Last Line: Cigarette with %one %hand SOMEDAY I'M GOING TO WRITE A PRIMER FOR CRIPPLED SAINTS ... First Line: As the bomb sits out there in the hands of a SOMETHING First Line: I'm out of matches Last Line: But the stockmarket went up %today SOMETHING FOR THE TOUTS THE NUNS THE GROCERY CLERKS AND YOU First Line: We have everything and we have nothing Last Line: Some do it naturally %some obscenely %everywhere SOMETIMES EVEN PUTTING A NICKEL INTO A PARKING METER FEELS GOOD First Line: Precious grenades inside my skull Last Line: And let the good life roll along like that SOMETIMES IT'S EASIER TO KILL SOMEBODY ELSE First Line: I was never a very good suicide, I gave it a go now and %then but something Last Line: And one strand of twisted burnt hair %from my head was dangling into my face %and then I started lau SOMETIMES YOU GO A BIT CRAZY First Line: Like the time at agua caliente I got lucky on the %horses and stayedthat night Last Line: And they all said: %'chinaski, chinaski, you are a %truly gr%man...' SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS First Line: Sitting in a big ranch house with a grandmother Last Line: Maybe later that night things would look %better SOMEWHERE IT'S 12:41 A.M. First Line: The soprano sings in my radio Last Line: Dust %and foolishness %survives SON OF SATAN First Line: I was eleven and my two buddies, hass and morgan, they were each twelve.... Last Line: I could hear my father breathing, and I moved myself exactly under %the center of the bed and waited SONG First Line: Julio came by with his guitar and sang his SOUL First Line: Oh, how worried they are about my Last Line: I suppose I %should SOULLESS LIFE First Line: I meet the movie star, he's playing chinaski Last Line: Why don't you do the same? SOULS OF DEAD ANIMALS First Line: After the slaughterhouse Last Line: And nobody minded me %at all SOUND OF HUMAN LIVES First Line: Strange warmth, hot and cold females Last Line: Ass to the ceiling for a change SOUNDLESS First Line: It is said %that in the courting stage Last Line: With its tongue plucked out forever SPACE CREATURES First Line: They are at the track every Last Line: Beings. %I miss them SPANISH GATE First Line: After the reading we went to her home, a large place Last Line: That I really miss %that %beautiful %imported %spanish %gate SPARK First Line: I always resented all the years, the hours, the Last Line: What a lucky god damned %thing SPARKS First Line: The factory off santa fe ave. Was Last Line: We gave them %nothing Variant Title(s): The Factory Crew Of Southeast L.a SPEED First Line: Every day on the freeway I get into a speed duel with SPIDER First Line: Then there was the time in Last Line: Angry. She was a good %sort SPILL First Line: The jock's horse Last Line: The man behind %me %said to his %companion, %'let's go get %a %beer.' SPINNING THE RIBBON First Line: O.K. Now, he said, falcon, I want you to pack off Last Line: And better that %falcon, than %me SPLASH First Line: The illusion is that you are simply Last Line: Being the music %roaring %roaring %roaring SPLASHING First Line: Dumb Last Line: Slamming %my guts to %pieces STAG First Line: This guy pretended to be a french painter Last Line: And drove on %home STAGES First Line: Back then you'd go through stages Last Line: Been stuck there %ever %since STAR First Line: I was drunk and they Last Line: My critical review %of their %effort STARK DEAD First Line: Pretentious pap smeared on sanctified Last Line: This dark stinks of us, here STARTING FAST First Line: We each STARTLED INTO LIFE LIKE FIRE First Line: In grievous deity my cat Last Line: Porticoes of my %admiration STATE AND THAT BEGGING MOTHERF .. R, ART First Line: Shostakovitch %I listen to the 7th written durning world war ii STATE OF WORLD AFFAIRS FROM A 3RD FLOOR WINDOW First Line: I am watching a girl dressed in a Last Line: The bombs will never go off STAY OUT OF MY SLIPPERS, YOU FOOL First Line: It's not good, some of the days we have, horrible Last Line: Get the hell out of my face STETHOSCOPE CASE First Line: My doctgor has just come into his office Last Line: I'm far beyond all that STEW First Line: Stew at noon, my dear; and look Last Line: We can't make any money %awake STICKS AND STONES ... First Line: Complaint is often the result of an insufficient Last Line: Back rub %on a frozen night %behind the ski lift at %aspen STILL TRAPEZE First Line: Saroyan told his wife, 'I've got to STINK First Line: When I was eleven or twelve one summer I used to hitchhike 20 Last Line: Well, I don't ask them to hang around and they don't STOLEN First Line: I keep thinking it will be outside Last Line: Night was just about over STORM First Line: A storm at last in this damned Last Line: World should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just %cats and %rain, rain and cats, very STRAIGHT ON THROUGH First Line: I am %hung by a nail Last Line: I've never been mad %at anything STRANGE DAY First Line: It was one of those hot and tiring days at hollywood Last Line: Long %long %day STRANGE LUCK First Line: Slapped across the face with a Last Line: And strange and strange and %strange and %strange STRANGE MOMENT First Line: As I was walking through this parking Last Line: Normal: it sure felt %more %real STRANGE MORNING OUTSIDE THE BAR First Line: It had never happened before and one doesn't Last Line: Buy the next %round STRANGE WORKINGS OF THE DARK LIFE First Line: He lived in canada and in a famous Last Line: And the padded feet of death STRANGER First Line: He came in with %a knife in his Last Line: The night was %really %ruined STRANGEST SIGHT YOU EVER DID SEE First Line: I had this room in front on delongpre Last Line: I'm sure they %did STRANGEST THING First Line: I was sitting in a chair Last Line: And turned up the %flame STREETCARS First Line: Frank and I were twelve or thirtheen %and it was the depression era Last Line: That's all that's %left,' frank said %we walked along %in the moonlight %thinking about %it STRIDE First Line: Norman and I, both 19, striding the streets of STRIKEOUT First Line: It was 94 degrees, the 2nd game of a sunday doubleheader Last Line: I can't hear you,' she hollered back %'never mind,' he said %what the fuck. He stretched out in the STRONG MAN First Line: I went to see him, there in that place in Last Line: You're finally wrong %this time %john thomas, you %bastard STRONGEST OF THE STRANGE First Line: You won't see them often %for wherever the crowd is %they %are not Last Line: Face dreaming against the %walls of %the world %where %did I%go? STUCK WITH IT First Line: This is plagiarism, of course, sitting here with Last Line: Henry, why do you write %those terrible words?' STUPID PAIN First Line: A hard hard %face %under hard hard %skin %but what a grand %body Last Line: And being free of %that %I have a new more reasonable %agony SUBORDER OF NAKED BUDS First Line: The uselessness of the word is Last Line: Out %our indecent %profession SUCCESS First Line: I had a most difficult job Last Line: My great white belly against %the fan SUCH LUCK First Line: We were at this table Last Line: We %all looked %away SUCKERFISH First Line: Withrop finds me where I am Last Line: For the first time in %hours SUGGESTION FOR AN ARRANGEMENT First Line: It would be nice to die at the typer instead of with my Last Line: Just well enough to %end like %that SUMMING UP First Line: On monday mornings at the hotel, sick, no %rent in sight, and starved, starved Last Line: Not quite, that would have spoiled %it almost madder than that which had %created us %we did what we SUNDAY ARTIST First Line: I have been painting these last two sundays Last Line: And the paint sticks to my plan like candy SUNDAY BEFORE NOON First Line: Spinach, gabriel, %all fall down Last Line: Burn, my whore walks across the room and %smiles at me SUNDAY LUNCH AT THE HOLY MISSION First Line: He got knifed in broad daylight, came up the street Last Line: Feeling quite like celebrities SUNNY SIDE DOWN First Line: Nothing. Sitting in a cafe having breakfast. Nothing. The SUPPOSEDLY FAMOUS First Line: Not much to hang onto in this early morning growling SURPRISE TIME AGAIN First Line: It's always a surprise to some Last Line: As you read this %wondering SWAY WITH ME First Line: Sway with me, everything sad -- Last Line: Dead or lost %or unforgiving SWEATER First Line: I had to drive to palos verdes to do some business at the Last Line: We'd spoiled each others' %fucking %day SWEATY DAY IN AUGUST First Line: We were starving %yet drinking Last Line: Innocently %reading: %2:30 p.M SWEET MUSIC First Line: It beats love because there aren't any Last Line: Nod and mozart plays SWIFT AND SLOW First Line: Sure enough, the ring %thightens %I sent out flares %no %response Last Line: Especially %while knowing %that the end %is there %and here SWINGING FROM THE HOOK First Line: Often while driving down the freeway I feel like Last Line: Without even thinking, without confusion, and still probably can SWIVEL CHAIR First Line: I broke two chairs lately Last Line: Rat tat tat tat %gotcha! Variant Title(s): Swive SWORD First Line: Watching a tv show Last Line: Each man %alone %forever T.M. First Line: She lived in galveston and was into Last Line: Neither of us has written TABBY CAT First Line: He has on bluejeans and tennis shoes Last Line: Jump %while you can TABLE FOR TWO First Line: It was down at the waterfront and we Last Line: Oh yes, I said, I'm sure that I %will TAG UP AND HOLD First Line: Not much chance in Last Line: Without %much chance TAKE IT First Line: Got it down so tight the hinges squeaked Last Line: With big fat balls and %silver hair TAKEN First Line: Ezra, celine, hamsun, sartre, others Last Line: Before it reached %them TAKING CARE OF THE BIG WHAMMY First Line: I forget which year it was Last Line: And began jamming %letters %again TALK First Line: Listen, he told me, I wanted to escape the cruelties Last Line: That's very nice, I said, but now let me tell you my %story %oh oh, he said %and then I proceeded TALKERS First Line: The boy walks with his muddy feet across my Last Line: The woman any more TALKING TO MY MAILBOX... First Line: Boy, don't come around here telling me you Last Line: I hope you take it %persoanlly, %man Variant Title(s): Talking To A Part Of My Mailbo TAX CONSULTANT First Line: He arrived, brisk, with briefcase, highly recommended, he TELEPHONE First Line: Many women I have known have Last Line: A misogynist who %writes these %poems TELEPHONE First Line: Will bring you people Last Line: The kind %understanding %soul TERMINOLOGY First Line: My other favorite cat seemed to be dying and Last Line: The pages as if I had forgotten everything, which %I hadn't %exactly TERMITES OF THE PAGE First Line: The problem that I've found with TERROR First Line: The terror is in viewing the human Last Line: Me %through and %through TERRORISTS First Line: Coming up from the street Last Line: Just another crazy white loser TEXAN First Line: She's from texas and weighs Last Line: And I say %yes THANK YOU First Line: Some want me to go on writing about whores THANKS FOR THAT First Line: At this time Last Line: No stewardess and %no lost luggage THANKS TO THE COMPUTER First Line: You write a bad poem and you just Last Line: Now let's get back to %work THAT I HAVE KNOWN THE DEAD First Line: That I have known the dead and now I'm Last Line: Alone now %alone then %alone THAT RARE GOOD MOMENT First Line: When the gods relent Last Line: And even ducks %sleep THAT'S WHY FUNERALS ARE SO SAD First Line: He's got all the tools but he's lazy, has no THE BEAST Poem Text First Line: Beowulf may have killed grendel and Last Line: And all the walls become impossible Subject(s): Beowulf THE BEAUTIFUL LADY EDITOR First Line: She was a beautiful woman, I used to see photographs of Subject(s): Editors THE COLORED BIRDS Poem Text First Line: It is a highrise apt. Next door Last Line: He's one of the few real men around / here Subject(s): Social Problems THE FIGHTER Poem Text First Line: Hemingway feels it from the grave Last Line: What trhey say / now Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) THE GENIUS OF THE CROWD Poem Text Recitation First Line: There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average Last Line: 8, 1988 by charles bukowski. THE LAUGHING HEART Poem Text Recitation First Line: Your life is your life THE LOSER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: And the next I remembered I'm on a table Last Line: And I’ve been fighting / ever since Subject(s): Sports THE REPLACEMENTS Poem Text First Line: Jack london drinking his life away while Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; London, Jack (1876-1916); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE SECRET Poem Text First Line: Don't worry, nobody has the Last Line: "the life so dying of Subject(s): Men THE SHAPE OF THE STAR Poem Text First Line: Well, you know, he started out as a Last Line: What it / is Subject(s): Hollywood, California THE SICKNESS Poem Text First Line: If / one night / I write Last Line: It. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE STRONGEST OF THE STRONG Poem Text Recitation THE SUICIDE KID Poem Text First Line: I went to the worst of bars Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE TRASH MEN Poem Text First Line: Here they come / these guys Last Line: Find us. Variant Title(s): The End Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal THE WORD (1) Poem Text First Line: The word has no legs or eyes Last Line: Getting it / down Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary THE WORD (2) Poem Text First Line: There was auden, I don't remember Last Line: After we are / not Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary THE YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I watch them going up and down the hill on their Last Line: Come on, let's find something to do Subject(s): Youth THEIR NIGHT First Line: Never could read tender is the THEM AND US First Line: They were all out on the front porch Last Line: And helped bill find %the %telephone THERE First Line: The centerfielder Last Line: Through the %miraculous %air THERE ARE HECKLERS IN GERMANY TOO First Line: I see you hanging from the girders Last Line: For the ten %dm THERE ONCE WAS A WOMAN WHO PUT HER HEAD INTO AN OVEN First Line: Terror finally becomes almost Last Line: Over a cliff of hell and into the %sea THERE'S NO BUSINESS First Line: Manny hyman had been in show business since he was sixteen Last Line: He blew a limp dick with sagging balls. It floated over the commotion. A new star was born THERE'S ONE IN EVERY BAR First Line: The pathetic squirrel drinks johnny walker red Last Line: She's a complete asshole too THEY ALL OF THEM KNOW First Line: Ask the sidewalk painters of paris Last Line: Than a man can bear THEY ARE EVERYWHERE First Line: The tragedy-sniffers are all Last Line: And %ranting %on THEY ARRIVED IN TIME First Line: I like to think about writers like james joyce Last Line: When there was no chance %gave me one THEY DON'T EAT LIKE US First Line: My father eating Last Line: And I'll never collect THEY NEED WHAT THEY NEED First Line: Out here in long beach we have Last Line: Show them something %useful and real %like a cezanne or a chagall %and they'll fall %asleep THEY RUIN YOUR DAY First Line: I parked the bmw and went in to get some papers Last Line: That I forgot about that bum at all THEY THINK THIS IS THE WAY IT'S DONE First Line: He saw me walking into the track and he stood Last Line: Nice way to right a day that had started %wrong THINK OF IT First Line: Think of it, there were fellows like Last Line: Walking toward you %with dead %eyes THIS (1) First Line: Self-congratulatory nonsense as the Last Line: You sick %motherfucker THIS (3) First Line: Being drunk at the typer beats being with any woman THIS DIRTY, VALIANT GAME First Line: I see e.E. Cummings drinking a Last Line: Flowers frozen in %blood %urine %wine THIS DRUNK ON THE NEXT BARSTOOL First Line: Forgive me, sir, but I must talk to %somebody %yeh? Last Line: Caught a glance from the doll %at the end of the bar %might be a good night, after %all THIS HABIT First Line: It's done by living through the women Last Line: This old man %live well together THIS IS A FACT First Line: In the company of fools Last Line: God bless us THIS IS FREE, TAKE IT, AND FEEL BETTER First Line: Bad-natured people are everywhere THIS KIND OF FIRE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think the gods Subject(s): Aging THIS MOMENT First Line: It's a farce, the great actors, the great poets, the great Last Line: The day flings itself upon you THIS MOST DELICATE PROFESSION First Line: You can think about writing %until you can't write anymore Last Line: She finds the writer %asleep %the lights still %on, %the scandal sheet %flat against his %chest %he' THIS NIGHT First Line: I sit in a chair on the balcony Last Line: And far %better %I wait THIS PARTICULAR WAR First Line: Gutted: %sunk like the german navy Last Line: As she now sings her old song to her %new lover THIS POET First Line: This poet he' Last Line: Vomit anyw %here for mon %ey THIS REJOINDER First Line: The people survive to come up with flat fists full Last Line: Make more %sense THIS THEN First Line: It's the same as before Last Line: I hope that death contains %less than this THOSE GIRLS WE FOLLOWED HOME First Line: In jr. High the two prettiest girls were Last Line: Yet, it's the dream that %keeps you going %then and %now THOSE GOOD PEOPLE First Line: The worst celebrities often support the most noble Last Line: Or %any night %at all THOSE MARVELOUS LUNCHES First Line: When I was in grammar school Last Line: Sissies live a hard %life THOSE MORNINGS First Line: I still remember those new orleans rats Last Line: And the whores slept %like %babies THOUGHTS ON BEING 71 First Line: Having worn life like a red flower Last Line: That space is all we'll ever really need. %any of %us THREE ORANGES First Line: Firsts time my father overheard me listening to Last Line: Before he makes more %such as %I THROUGH THE STREETS OF ANYWHERE First Line: Of course it is nonsense to try to patch up an Last Line: But not much %for me TIGRESS First Line: Terrible arguments. %and, at last, lying peacefully Last Line: She bathes, I hear the splashing of water TIME First Line: One collapses and surrenders Last Line: With white hands TIME IS MADE TO BE WASTED First Line: I had just bought some boxer shorts Last Line: And then it vanished under a %bush TIRED IN THE AFTERDUSK First Line: Smoking a cigarrete and noting a mosquito who has %flattened out Last Line: Through my body %this %old dog %resting in the shade %peaceful %but ready TO HELL AND BACK IN A BUGGY CARRIAGE First Line: That was one of the popular sayings, I didn't know Last Line: The laughter like knives cutting the %stupid air TO JANE COONEY BAKER, DIED 1-22-62 First Line: And so you have gone %leaving me here Last Line: The door. Now you must wait for me TO KISS THE WORMS GOODNIGHT First Line: Kool enough to die but not Last Line: To love me to sleep while I am %waiting TO LEAN BACK INTO IT First Line: Like in a chair the color of the sun Last Line: Not all of it was good luck TO SERVE AND PROTECT First Line: There were two policemen on motorcycles Last Line: I got in and drove %off TO THE WHORE WHO TOOK MY POEMS First Line: Some say we should keep personal remorse from the Last Line: But not so very much %poetry TO WEEP First Line: Sweating in the kitchen Last Line: The soprano is dead TOGETHER First Line: Hey, I hollered across the TOKEN DRUNK First Line: I was standing on the deck near the rail Last Line: It was just another sunday morning in %marina del rey TONALITIES First Line: The soldiers march without guns Last Line: I am this fiery snail %crawling home TONIGHT First Line: Your poems about the girls will still be around Last Line: Do you know what I mean TOO DARK First Line: No,' she said, 'I know you fucked another woman Last Line: Then I got up and brushed my teeth TOO HOT First Line: I am here courtesy of life Last Line: Continue writing this dripping %wet poem %right? %right TOO LATE First Line: About to walk into a supermarket today Last Line: I'm sixty, dear, what the %hell TOO LATE First Line: I was a slow developer Last Line: Sitting at the table %with TOO MANY BLACKS First Line: My first wife was from texas and we came back Last Line: And let her %work it %out TOO MUCH First Line: Brawley was a good sort %normal as a heating pad %then he %got a fewmiles on hi Last Line: And we move on %to more %interesting subjects %like nuclear %winter TOO SOON First Line: This dutchman %in a philly bar put Last Line: And too soon dead TORCHED-OUT First Line: The worst was closing the bars at Last Line: Life couldn't get any %better TOTAL MADNESS First Line: All right, I know that you are tired of hearing it Last Line: Remain young %forever %rooms of %glory TOUCH OF STEEL First Line: We had the nicest old guy Last Line: But the way I see it %he must have. TOUGH COMPANY First Line: Poems like gunslingers Last Line: Son of a bitch TOUGH TIME First Line: I was a student of philosophy Last Line: It had been a %crappy %summer TOUGHER THAN CORNED BEEF HASH -- First Line: The motion of the human heart Last Line: And on and on %for a while TOULOUSE First Line: He had an accident as a child Last Line: Final and terrible and beautiful whore TRAFFIC REPORT First Line: Here in los angeles Last Line: I prefer to die by my own %hand TRAFFIC SIGNALS First Line: The old folks play a game Last Line: They disgust me TRAFFIC TICKET First Line: I walked off the job again Last Line: They said I did TRAGEDY OF THE LEAVES First Line: I awakened to dryness, and the ferns were dead Last Line: Because the world has failed us %both TRAGIC MEETING First Line: I was more visible and available then TRAIN STATION First Line: It was a fine german city Last Line: And think train stations %are only places you go %to get on a %train TRAINING FOR KID AZTEC First Line: I was a young guy in los angeles Last Line: Sucking them off right on the %loading ramps TRANSFORMATION AND DISFIGURATION First Line: There were always little tragedies Last Line: I got out of there too Variant Title(s): Transformation And Disfiguration At The P. TRANSPORT First Line: I was a scraggly bum most of my Last Line: You and I %we know %better TRAPPED First Line: In the winter walking on my Last Line: I am bigger than the mountains TRAPPED First Line: Don't undress my love Last Line: I only wanted her %to TRASH CAN First Line: This is great, I just wrote two Last Line: Misbegotten one %also %ha ha ha TRASHCAN LIVES First Line: The wind blows hard tonight TREASON First Line: Colyngbourne crossed a king with a poem Last Line: And decided the jester too %must die TREE, A ROAD, A TOAD First Line: A table of 7, all %laughing loudly, again and again Last Line: I hope so. %I have to hope so TRENCH WARFARE First Line: Sick with the flu Last Line: Dylan all the %way TROLLIUS AND TRELLISES First Line: Of course, I may die in the next ten minutes Last Line: And the fire sings %through the %trees TROOPS First Line: World war ii %I was 21 Last Line: Just kept on %going TROUBLE IN THE NIGHT First Line: She awakens me almost every night Last Line: But what does she want? TROUBLE WITH SPAIN First Line: I got in the shower Last Line: I spun around to get out of the burning %water, and burnt my bunghole %too TROUBLES IN THE NIGHT First Line: Son-of-a-bitch, I don't know why Last Line: You'd probably have caught a juicy %fly by now TRUCE First Line: I need to walk down a sidewalk Last Line: Other %after everything %else TRUE First Line: One of lorca's best lines TRUE CONFESSION First Line: Now look benny, he said Last Line: I guess we're both lawyers then, mr. %markovitch TRUE STORY First Line: They found him walking along the freeway Last Line: God, or somebody, %bless %him TRYING TO GET EVEN First Line: We'd had any number of joints and some Last Line: And she probably %has TRYING TO MAKE IT First Line: New jock in from arizona TURNABOUT First Line: She drives into the parking lot while Last Line: Mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything %about mercy TV First Line: I went to this place to see a movie Last Line: Jesus christ, what a %night TWINS First Line: He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen Last Line: Waiting also %to die TWINS First Line: Hey, said my friend, I want you to meet Last Line: All right. Yes TWO CRAZIES First Line: We were the only two whites in the Last Line: And if that ain't crazy %I'd rather %be TWO DRUNKS First Line: I was trying to write Last Line: You see this poem TWO TOUGHEST APES IN THE SOUTH BAY AREA First Line: There's this great big guy comes to see me, he sits in Last Line: Anything closer than that would %wipe us %out TWO TOUGHS First Line: At l.A. City college there were two toughs, me and jed Last Line: Here's a thanks %for that drink UNCROWNED First Line: A retired middleweight boxer, hayden stuhlsatz, fought Last Line: Said the county coroner. %an inquest is pending UNDECENT First Line: Brisk, brisk, brisk Last Line: And the mad %man %is right UNDER First Line: I can't pick anything up Last Line: It is a victory to scratch %myself UNKIND POEM First Line: They go on writing Last Line: Tap tap tap, tap tap, tap tap tap, tap tap UNTIL First Line: We've got to live with loss and Last Line: We live with it and we live with it until we die UNTIL IT HURTS First Line: You have to wait until it Last Line: Out of the tips of %your %fingers UNTIL THE LAST DAY OR NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE First Line: What you've got I don't need and %what I need you don't %have,'she said to him Last Line: Kill me %but you've got %what I %need %he smiled and %waitedfor %that UNUSUAL PLACE First Line: Just thinking about Last Line: There's work to be done UNUSUAL WOMAN First Line: I met this woman %and she said Last Line: A highly unusual woman UNWRITTEN First Line: It's been months now: the most Last Line: So I could have %considered it %trivial UP THROUGH THE NIGHT First Line: The way I can tell it is the christmas Last Line: Bearable and life worth %discarding UP YOUR YELLOW RIVER First Line: A woman told a man Last Line: Of those gravediggers %could write UPON FIRST READING THE IMMORTAL LITERATURE OF THE WORLD -- First Line: The school children %bang closed Last Line: Boring %as %immortality UPON PHONING AN X-WIFE NOT SEEN FOR 20 YEARS First Line: I got her number from a girlfriend of mine Last Line: Lobster. It was boiling nicely. And now she was too UPON READING A CRITICAL REVIEW First Line: It's difficult to accept Last Line: I am on the next page %the next book UPON SPLITTING WITH THE LAST WOMAN First Line: ('you're 62 and I have potential...' Last Line: It's a warm september, a.M. And %the cats have been fed UPON THIS TIME First Line: Fine then, thunderclaps at midnight, death in the Last Line: And I can't even %shine %my shoes VALENTINE GIFT First Line: I sit looking dumbly at this stuffed red devil on my desk. I am in Last Line: Piece of %blank typing paper VALLEJO First Line: It is hard to find a man Last Line: The sound of cesar vellejo's %steadfast tread imponderable VAMPIRES First Line: I am hungover and in bed and the doorbell rings Last Line: The way they do VAN GOGH First Line: Vain vanilla ladies strutting Last Line: It never arrived VEGAS Poem Text Recitation First Line: There was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint Last Line: I kept my mouth / shut Subject(s): Americans; Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Las Vegas, Nevada; United States; America VEGAS First Line: There was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint Last Line: I kept my mouth %shut Subject(s): Americans; Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Las Vegas, Nevada; United States VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED Poem Text First Line: The snoring in the flophouse was very loud, as usual Last Line: It was muscated Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flop-houses; Wine VENGEANCE OF THE DAMNED First Line: The snoring in the flophouse was very loud, as usual Last Line: Tom passed the bottle. Max took the hit, passed it back %'thanks' %tom slipped the bottle under his Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Flop-houses VICTORY First Line: What bargains we have made Last Line: From us %but %our lives VICTORY! First Line: We struck in the middle of a simple dawn Last Line: The flowers rewarded us %with their beauty VIEW FROM THE QUARTER, MARCH 12TH, 1965 First Line: We are in a terrible hurry to die Last Line: Don't wanta think %no more VIEW FROM THE SCREEN First Line: I cross the room Last Line: As I %have lived VIEWS First Line: My friend says, how can you write so many poems Last Line: And the subject is closed VIOLIN PLAYER First Line: He was in the upper grandstand Last Line: I was getting into evening VIRGINS First Line: Sitting in this little mexican bar in san pedro Last Line: Now there's room for whiskey VISITATION First Line: Well, here we go now Last Line: I come back here and %sit at this %keyboard. %to hell with this %poem VOICE First Line: We had a table outside Last Line: Enough (had been) %said VOICE OF CHINASKI First Line: Modern composers re writing pieces using Last Line: And the nuns and the monks have %god VOICE OUT OF THE VOID First Line: She phoned me about it from a far away Last Line: I walked across the room and %snapped on the %tv VOICES First Line: My moustache is pasted-on Last Line: And they grimmed and I knew I didn't mean it VOTE FOR THE GENTLE LIGHT First Line: Burned senseless by other people's constant depression Last Line: And even in death %it can be there VOUCHSAFEMENT First Line: Did you ever see a horse with a leg Last Line: Its side, there like that, stalled %in reflection WAIT, IT WILL FIND US First Line: A day at the track Last Line: You have become %accustomed %to WAITING First Line: Hot summers in the mid-30's in los angeles Last Line: Hot summer in the mid-30's in los angeles WAITRESS AT THE YOGURT SHOP Last Line: Oh my god %what have I %done? %won't %she %ever %shut up? WALKING WITH THE DEAD First Line: And talking with the dead and driving the freeways Last Line: Throw it out %start over again WALL CLOCK First Line: Many years ago %in this one place where I worked Last Line: Many more important things WALLS First Line: After you've hit the bars a while Last Line: Within dark and %peeling walls WANDERING IN THE CAGE First Line: Languid conjecture during hours of moil, trapped in the shadows Last Line: I am exactly what I am supposed to %be WAR First Line: The black and the yellow met Last Line: On the car radio WAR First Line: War, war, war Last Line: Breathing like this WARM ASSES First Line: This friday night %the mexican girls at the catholic carnival Last Line: Mournful mexican asses WARM LIGHT First Line: Alone Last Line: All that there %is %to know WARNING First Line: Upon your darkened red mouth wild birds scream Last Line: The last one here WASHRAG First Line: Leaving for the track in the morning Last Line: I blend into %time WASTED First Line: Too often the people complain that they have Last Line: I want to be free of that WAVING AND WAVING GOODBYE First Line: I paid this one's fare all the way from houston Last Line: But I'm not sure WAX JOB First Line: Man, he said, sitting on the steps Last Line: There was no way I could make it with %him WAY First Line: Murdered in the alleys of the land Last Line: And I write poems for them WAY IT IS First Line: Almost everybody here is on Last Line: Lovely %little %neighborhood WAY IT IS NOW First Line: I'll tell you %I've lived with some gorgeous women Last Line: Being often enough %alone WAY IT WORKS First Line: She came out at 9:30 a.M. In the morning Last Line: Now we wouldn't have to WE AIN'T GOT NO MONEY, HONEY, BUT WE GOT RAIN First Line: Call it the greenhouse effect or whatever Last Line: The world might %never see %again WE BOTH KNEW HIM First Line: I knew him before I knew you, she said Last Line: Of beer and, mister death %I left WE CAN'T First Line: We can't win %it Last Line: And the human %faces %watching WE EVOLVE First Line: At first it seems like fucking is the big thing Last Line: It gives one the fidgets: waiting on %death WE GET ALONG First Line: The various women I have lived with have loved Last Line: Nearly almost always faithful WE MUST First Line: We must bring %our own light %to the darkness %nobody is going %to do it %for u Last Line: As the final season %leaps into %focus %nobody is going %to do it %for us WE NEEDED HIM First Line: So big, with a cigar sticking out of his mouth Last Line: And clear as that WE WILL TASTE THE ISLANDS AND THE SEA First Line: I know that some night Last Line: All sadness, grinning %into flow WE'LL TAKE THEM First Line: Those lobsters Last Line: Flowers of the sea WE'RE ALL GONNA MAKE IT First Line: My black buddy rice %I got him hooked Last Line: Either one of us. %'scooby doobie do...' WE'VE GOT TO COMMUNICATE First Line: He was a very sensitive man, she told me Last Line: Tell me, why are you afraid of a woman's pussy WE, THE ARTISTS First Line: In san francisco the landlady, 80, helped me drag the green Last Line: Francisco and new orleans were two of my %favorite towns WEAK First Line: Are always proclaiming that Last Line: And to proclaim %proclaim %proclaim WEARING THE COLLAR First Line: I live with a lady and four cats WEATHER IS HOT ON THE BACK OF MY WATCH First Line: The weather is hot on the back of my watch Last Line: It was 4:35 p.M WEATHER REPORT First Line: I suppose it's raining in some spanish town Last Line: That's the best way WEATHER'S BEEN FAIR First Line: Now looking out toward town Last Line: That's good enough for me WELCOME DARKNESS First Line: The door closes and you Last Line: The murder of the %sun %the last of %life WELL, THAT'S THE WAY IT IS First Line: Sometimes when everything seems at WET NIGHT First Line: The rag. %she sat there, glooming Last Line: I don't know about the %woman WHAT A WRITER Poem Text First Line: What I liked about e.E. Cummings Last Line: One moon Subject(s): Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Poetry & Poets WHAT A WRITER First Line: What I liked about e.E. Cummings Last Line: One poet %like %that Subject(s): Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Poetry And Poets WHAT AM I DOING First Line: Got to stop battling these wild speed jocks on the freeway as WHAT CAN YOU DO First Line: There is always somebody to chop wood Last Line: The tavern with dirty %fingernails WHAT DO THEY WANT? First Line: There are times when those eyes inside your Last Line: What do they want? WHAT THEY WANT First Line: Vallejo writing about Last Line: Dreary %admirers of %carnivals WHAT WE NEED First Line: He was an old beatnik poet Last Line: Went on talking in %the other room WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBORS THINK First Line: I think that was the question asked most of me Last Line: What the %neighbors thought WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN? First Line: O yes huxley motorcaded through southern europe Last Line: Looking up at the dark ceiling WHAT'S THE USE OF A TITLE? First Line: They don't make it Last Line: As the old men play checkers in the sun %in the park WHAT? First Line: Sleepy now Last Line: Christmas morning WHEN I THINK OF MYSELF DEAD First Line: I think of automobiles parked in a Last Line: My clean and dirty underwear %away WHEN THE VIOLETS ROAR AT THE SUN First Line: They've got us in the cage Last Line: At what they've done to us WHERE TO PUT IT First Line: Don't blame me if your car breaks down on the freeway Last Line: But don't blame yourself WHISTLER First Line: She said, all of a sudden Last Line: No wonder we sleep %away the %nights WHITE DOG First Line: I went for a walk on hollywood boulevard Last Line: I let it walk away WHO IN HELL IS TOM JONES First Line: I was shacked with a Last Line: Pulling up my shorts %I tried to explain WHOREHOUSE First Line: My first experience in a whorehouse WIDE AND MOVING First Line: It is 98 degrees and I am standing in the center Last Line: Peck in the dirt outside WILD, FRESH WIND BLOWING.... First Line: I should not have blamed only my father, but Last Line: Some fat old waitress bringing me a cup of coffee %is in comparison %like a fresh wild wind blowing WIND THE CLOCK First Line: It's just a slow day moving into a slow night Last Line: It'll be the same damn thing WINDY NIGHT First Line: They smile and bring the food Last Line: Szechwan shrimp with chinese %peas %again WINE OF FOREVER First Line: Re-reading some of fante's WINNER First Line: It was the 6th round and tony musso was landing tough body shots Last Line: Buzzard pushed the door open with a sweep of his left arm and %we filed in WINTER First Line: Big sloppy wounded dog Last Line: Snow fell upon the %sierra madre WINTER: 44TH YEAR First Line: I am sad Last Line: Leave the message WISE First Line: We were wise Last Line: Alone %too long! WITHIN MY OWN MADNESS First Line: I have always been fascinated by chinese armies Last Line: Preciseness fascinates me and the end of long- %windedness WITHIN THE DENSE OVERCAST First Line: The spaniards had it right and the greeks had it Last Line: The pigeon speaks my %name WOMAN First Line: This head like a saucer Last Line: Heavy with everything %except my love WOMAN FROM GERMANY First Line: Every 3 or 4 nights the phone rings Last Line: I want to know her name WOMAN IN ORANGE First Line: I am frightened and %hung over crossing rowena avenue Last Line: Frightened and hung over %all over %again WOMAN IN THE SUPERMARKET First Line: You don't think you'll find anybody in there Last Line: Things out of the bags and started putting them away WOMAN ON THE STREET First Line: Her shoes themselves Last Line: She walks away WOMEN First Line: My uncle ben was interested in the ladies Last Line: And the remembrance %of %her laughter WONDROUS First Line: All right, lay on the rain Last Line: The divine %broth WORD (1) First Line: The word has no legs or eyes Last Line: Getting it down %getting it %down Subject(s): Language WORD (2) First Line: There was auden, I don't remember Last Line: Always %after we are %not Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry And Poets WORKERS First Line: They laugh continually %even when Last Line: Humor %to the %end WORKING First Line: Ah, those days when I WORKING IT OUT First Line: In this steamy a.M. Hades claps its herpes hands and WORKING OUT First Line: Van gogh cut off his ear WORLD WAR ONE MOVIES First Line: Were best, the aviators drank at the bar Last Line: While %our fathers watched us %and %yawned WORST AND THE BEST First Line: In the hospitals and jails Last Line: That's the best for me WRITER First Line: When I think of the things I endured trying to be a Last Line: And start %writing %again WRITERS First Line: Harold knocked at the apartment door Last Line: Most beautiful ways to spend a night that was ever invented %he poured the first one WRITING First Line: Often it is the only Last Line: That's %what it %is WRITING IS A STATE OF TRANCE First Line: She walks in while Last Line: Bad luck:I do it %very well X-CON First Line: He did his time, came out, put on a black outfit and sang Last Line: There was nobody in that crowd, nothing or nobody at all X-FACTOR First Line: Pain in back, feel bloated, should cut my Last Line: Who could have %ever guessed X-IDOL First Line: I never watch tv so I don't know Last Line: The mountains call us home X-PUG First Line: He hooked to the body hard Last Line: But you'll have yor important tank of gas %and drive off YANKEE DOODLE First Line: I was young Last Line: Fired but that was the one time %I felt it YAWN First Line: I believe that I love sleep %much more than anybody I've ever met Last Line: I think it's the main reason I decided to become a writer :ican type anytime and sleep %when I damn YEAH First Line: Just heard a commercial %which told me %farmer john smokes his own Last Line: Bacon %now, there's a tough %son of a %bitch YEAH, MAN? First Line: The court was going to hell Last Line: He moved %further west YELLOW CAB First Line: The mexican dancer shook her fans at Last Line: Destiny. Winner take barcelona. Next %bar YELLOW PENCIL First Line: I am sitting in the stands with a Last Line: I wink and %slide %the money %toward %him YES First Line: No matter who I'm with Last Line: The hollywood hills Variant Title(s): Yes, I A YES SIRREE First Line: All our neighbors think that Last Line: And we're all %on %target YES YES First Line: When god created love he didn't help most Last Line: He came all over his blessed universe YOU First Line: You're a beast, she said Last Line: What do you want for %breakfast YOU CAN NEVER TELL WHO YOU'RE GOING TO MEET AT ANY MOMENT First Line: She came up behind me Last Line: Delahoussaye was due YOU CAN'T TELL A TURKEY BY ITS FEATHERS First Line: My son, my father said, if you only had some YOU DO IT WHILE YOU'RE KILLING FLIES First Line: Bach, I said, he had 20 children Last Line: When do you do your writing? YOU DON'T KNOW First Line: You don't know how good it Last Line: Until you've been %there YOU GET SO ALONE AT TIMES THAT IT JUST MAKES SENSE First Line: When I was a starving writer I used to read the major writers YOU KNOW AND I KNOW AND THEE KNOW First Line: That as the yellow shade rips Last Line: We will defeat death YOUNG First Line: I watch them going up and down the hill on their Last Line: Come on, let's find something to do Subject(s): Youth YOUNG IN NEW ORLEANS First Line: Starving there, sitting around the bars Last Line: Do %but only %know YOUNG LOVE First Line: We were nineteen, %angel, the little dark guy Last Line: Somehow I don't think we were YOUNG MAN ON THE BUS STOP BENCH First Line: He sits all day at the bus stop Last Line: The bench still sits there on the corner %advertising something YOUNG MEN First Line: Again and again %young men write me Last Line: And sleep forever YOUNG POETS First Line: The young comfortable poets send their work to Last Line: Fight, the only %fight YRS., ANICA First Line: She used to write me little notes Last Line: Woman %I have ever met ZERO (1) First Line: Dark taste in mouth, my neck is stiff, I am looking for Last Line: Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready %for the dangerous ones ZERO (2) First Line: Sitting here watching the second hand on the timex go ZERO (3) First Line: The consensus is that it's a difficult time Last Line: On a hot %july night ZOO First Line: The elephants are caked with mud and tired Last Line: We'll have to go to the zoo %again |
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