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Keyword: CHARLES BUKOWSKI Matches Found: 1746 $$$$$$, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've always had trouble with %money Last Line: Outside %it continued to %rain $100 , by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can get you a nice boy with Last Line: Else, which is the kindest way for %all of us $180 GONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost my ass at the races Last Line: Looking at the walls 103 DEGREES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She cut my toenails the night before Last Line: What the fuck 12 HOUR NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found myself in middle age Last Line: And it still is 12 MINUTES TO POST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we stand there before the purple mountains Last Line: So much more beautiful than %our lives 12/24/1978, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suck on this beer Last Line: The ambulances sing to each %other outside 12:18 A.M., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beheaded in the middle of the Last Line: Get between the sheets and %can't sleep 13TH MONTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the november of our hell Last Line: What month %what time %what 16 JAP MACHINE GUN BULLETS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Norman %jimmy Last Line: No time at %all 16-BIT INTEL 8088 CHIP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With an apple macintosh 1813-1883, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to wagner 191, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Year-worn Subject(s): Death; Cats; Dead, The 2 BUDDIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flies are angry bits of Last Line: It is late %for both of us 2 HORSE COLLARS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm hot now, he said Last Line: And that's more important than %.364 2 P.M.BEER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing matters %but flopping on a mattress Last Line: Propped up %to die 20 BUCKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was famous in his time Last Line: Now %he's hiding 225 POUNDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were in bed and Last Line: Really watching the news. I accepted her that %way 2347 DUANE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's this blue baby and she's sucking Last Line: Window, and that mattress near the door 2ND NOVEL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They'd come around and Last Line: Won't come to my door %anymore %it's nice 3 A.M. GAMES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worst thing is 3 BLACKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's midway through the card at the track Last Line: Don't blame the %car 3 OLD MEN AT SEPARATE TABLES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am %one of them Last Line: Nothing else matters so %sweetly now 340 DOLLAR HORSE AND A HUNDRED DOLLAR WHORE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was during a reading at the university of utah Last Line: Something to something 4 CHRISTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went up to santa cruz to read Last Line: I an the judas %among us 40 CIGARETTES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I smoked 2 packs of cigarettes today and Last Line: Now? And I'm the one who's scared 40,000, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now %at the track today Last Line: I decide to stay for %one more %race 40,000 FLIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torn by a temporary wind Last Line: And so hard to be %a man 462-0614, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get many phonecalls now Last Line: That's why my number's %listed 5 DOLLARS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went with two ladies Last Line: I'm sure it's a giant %con 59 CENTS A POUND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to prowl ordinary places Last Line: But we have %won 6 FOOT GODDESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm big Last Line: From everything that is %not here 60 YARD PASS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people don't do very well and I get discouraged with Last Line: This fucking city %right now 75 MILLION DOLLARS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's picasso %and now he's gone Last Line: 75 million dollars 7TH RACE WHEN THE ANGELS SWUNG LOW AND BURNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the board and the 6 dropped to 9 Last Line: And I finished my drink %and walked away 8 COUNT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my bed Last Line: Let you %know %fucker 8 COUNT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one %always arrives at the wrong time Last Line: Knock upon the %door 8 COUNT CONCERTO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lid to the great jar Last Line: Or else we'd all %go mad 8 ROOMS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dentist is a drunk Last Line: But she never told me her %name 99 TO ONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is unlikely that a decent poem is in me tonight ABOUT A TRIP TO SPAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In new york in those days they had Last Line: But you're the real winner forever ABOUT CRANES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes after you get your Last Line: Besides %stand on one leg ABOUT PAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first and only wife Last Line: Such things usually %begin %somewhere ABOUT THE PEN CONFERENCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a writer away from his typewriter ACCEPTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes as I am typing a Last Line: I %is never quite %sure %of %what tey are %dpooing ACTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am upstairs in pajamas and bathrobe Last Line: I get up and go for %a bottle of %wine ACTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man hit a pregnant woman Last Line: Helped the pregnant woman %to her feet AFDC FOR YOU AND ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These dogs, she said, are always sticking their Last Line: Until 5 a.M. %in the morning AFRICA, PARIS, GREECE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are these 2 women Last Line: I rub the bottoms of %her feet AFTER A READING, CHARLES BUKOWSKI RETURNS & GIVES ME THE LOWDOWN ...., by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm not even drunk!-we both say that as, ship size and grey, he floats Last Line: As rewards went on earth, each sunset the fish jumping blue and silver from the unappreciated beer-g Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers AFTER READING A CERTAIN POET:, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen people in front of Last Line: A little bit behind %them AFTERNOON IN FEBRUARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many of the paperboys here in l.A. Last Line: And the faint sound of the vacuum cleaner AGAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the territory is taken Last Line: As the shadow gets ready to fall again AGE AND YOUTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was driving over a bridge when Last Line: Feeling mighty %pleased with myself AH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drinking german beer Last Line: Still waiting on the immortal %poem AH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will never end, there will be no Last Line: Chair, laughing at it %all AH, AH, AH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose that what disturbs me about the sages Last Line: All the sages %all the years %wasted AIDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may not believe it Last Line: There %and I am %here ALL GOD'S CHILDREN GOT TROUBLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This guy murdered his %mother-in-law Last Line: Think of that poor bastard ALL THAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only things I remember about %new york city Last Line: And surprising painting %not hanging anywhere else ALL THE CASUALTIES..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told her then in bed Last Line: Didn't know %would %know ALL THE WAY TO THE GRAVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny Last Line: It was best like this ALONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there were only some help from the Last Line: The gods are laughing %already ALONE WITH EVERYBODY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh covers the bone Last Line: The graveyards fill %nothing else %fills ALWAYS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The important %thing %is the obvious Last Line: Thing that %nobody %is %saying AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SUFFERS THUS?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Took me 45 minutes to find my glasses Last Line: For they would not understand! AMERICAN WRITER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone abroad %I sit under the tv lights Last Line: Fooled them %again AN ARGUMENT OVER MARSHAL FOCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago he edited a little magazine Last Line: Maybe tonight I'll try to read his book ANONYMITY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never got to where I was Last Line: Telephone, both being used ANOTHER ARGUMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had an uncle who sniffed Last Line: Correct, we are all about to be %murdered ANOTHER BED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I haven't seen her since friday ANOTHER CASUALTY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat got run over ANOTHER DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Getting [or, having] the low-down blues and going into a restaurant Last Line: You start the engine ANOTHER LOVE POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the past six years Last Line: And you were %dead %long %before %me ANSWER TO A NOTE ON THE DRESSER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry about my poem Last Line: Much worse %than what %you read %of mine %in class APPLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not just an apple Last Line: And stare at a dirty %ashtray APPRENTICES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He used to sit in his bedroom slippers Last Line: He was. Of course, %there's still time ARE YOU DRINKING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook Last Line: My cat %this %time AREA OF PAUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have to have it or the walls will close Last Line: Laughter, then %walk %away ARGUMENT OVER MARSHAL FOCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mannequin in this junk shop Last Line: Yes, my love, I will ART, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way from mexico Last Line: And the ringing of the %phone ART, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the %spirit %wanes Last Line: The %form %appears ART CLASS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, it wasn't my idea Last Line: Plato couldn't have said it any %better ARTIST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of a sudden I'm a painter Last Line: In memory of one who %could ARTIST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look,' I say, 'you shouldn't have broken in Last Line: Better for his mother, %better for art ARTISTIC SELFISHNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's genius? Last Line: Crane %artaud %chinaski ARTISTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wrote me for years Last Line: Francine du plessix gray AS CRAZY AS I EVER WAS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it's just because %I was young then Last Line: Then, I say it now: fuck %you AS THE POEMS GO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the poems increase into the thousands you Last Line: And the worst %far too much ASHES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time %there was rene who Last Line: That I was living %at the %moment ASSAULT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad shape. Sick. Can hardly hold my soul together Last Line: We have just %each other AT THE END OF THE DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fat mexican woman in front of me Last Line: Infirmary and asks, 'what the hell happened?' AT THE SIZZLER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a male giraffe Last Line: Arranged it %for now AT VEGAS YOU HAVE TO PUT UP TWO TO GET ONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Typing in a room full of smoke Last Line: Hey baby, you all right AT&T, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you see, %we have the buildings and Last Line: The buildings sit and %wonder and work and wait ATTACK AND RETREAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read to them Last Line: Start in on novel # %4 AUG-93, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easy, go easy, you can't outlast the mountain Last Line: This waiting for the fullness and the %charge AVOIDING HUMANITY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much of my life has been dedicated Last Line: Especially %when I am %shaving AX AND BLADE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arriving to applause Last Line: Him and ask him why BACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in this old chair, listening to bach Last Line: No laughter %ever %again BACKUPS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this modern age of love/sex Last Line: I stare at her. %she blinks BAD ACTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got a seat down front and started Last Line: Is worse than being in the %county jail BAD DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jellyfish has a purpose Last Line: Who did this to %me BAD FIX, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old butch, they fixed him Last Line: Out of that huge %undefeated %head BAD FORM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The famous actor sat at the table with Last Line: Drinking in their %voluptuous %normalness BAD NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, father and I Last Line: Walked away into the afternoon BALLOONS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today they shot a guy who was Last Line: The next %nobody was BAND-AID, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are destroyed by our Last Line: That's true, I told %him, good %day BAR STOOL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day and each night were Last Line: Do you see %what I %mean? BARD OF SAN FRANCISCO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't old poets ever Last Line: To write %decent %poetry BAROMETER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was very young Last Line: Unjustified %horror %unmitigated BARSTOOL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The longer I live the more I realize Last Line: Circled in the %tenebrous %light BATTING ORDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hemingway's been in a slump Last Line: And, most likely / yours Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) BATTING ORDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun slides down through the shades Last Line: I got to hit one out of here pretty soon BE ALONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you think about how often Last Line: It's the last way left BE KIND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are always asked Last Line: Wasted %lives %is BEACH TRIP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strong men Last Line: The seagulls %the sea %the sand BEANS WITH GARLIC, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is important enough Last Line: Your feelings boiling over flame, %get this down BEAST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My beast comes in the afternoon Last Line: And all the walls become impossible BEASTS BOUNDING THROUGH TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Van gogh writing his brother for paints BEAUTI-FUL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One poet used to take Last Line: The far-off %basket BEAUTIFUL LADY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are gathered here now Last Line: Rich %frightened %husband BEAUTIFUL LADY EDITOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a beautiful woman, I used to see photographs of Subject(s): Editors BEAUTIFUL RUSH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stop my car at the signal Last Line: Nobody seems to care BEAUTY GONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hospitals I've been in Last Line: Made %useless as %the bedpan BEDS, BATHROOMS, YOU AND ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of all the beds %everywhere Last Line: Or in our bathroom %any longer BEDS, TOILETS, YOU AND ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the beds Last Line: Or blue %or lavender %goodbye BEE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose like any other boy Last Line: Because he's not even thinking %about me BEE'S 5TH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard it first while screwing a blond Last Line: We never made love %again BEER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how many bottles of beer Last Line: And beer is all there is BEER BOTTLE BLOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a slow night in %henry's haven Last Line: They say about %no teeth in the mouth BEERBOTTLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very miraculous thing just happened Last Line: New shoes, less rain, more poems BEETHOVEN CONDUCTED HIS LAST SYMPHONY WHILE TOTALLY DEAF, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His paintings would not be as valuable now Last Line: One. This is the dirty trick %of the ages BEFORE AIDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm glad I got to them Last Line: Good old times %before aids BEGGARS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poor Last Line: The horses are %beautiful %anyhow BEGGING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like most of you, I've had so many jobs that Last Line: No servant of %free %enterprise BEGINNING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When women stop carrying Last Line: They can talk to me %about %liberation BELFAST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing a letter to belfast Last Line: As young wives %should %do BELLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon after kennedy was shot Last Line: I could still hear the bells BEST MEN ARE STRONGEST ALONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big thrill Last Line: Fathers and sons %in the %other BETTING ON NOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am old enough to have died several Last Line: The volcano and the %leopard BETTING ON THE MUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy foxx died an alcoholic Last Line: Truly win %against %you BETWEEN RACES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I'm not supposed to bother Last Line: Conversation %ruin your %day BIG JOHN OF ECHO PARK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wife worked and bought his Last Line: Doesn't like to %type %too much BIG MAX, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In junior high school Last Line: World. It made us sick %to look at him BIG NIGHT ON THE TOWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk on the dark streets of some city Last Line: Perfection in the stars %where love died %laughing BIG RIDE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right Last Line: The %sea %breaks BIG TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got tired of going to the bars Last Line: And these days %they do %too. %it figures BIG TIME LOSER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red - eyed and dizzy as I Last Line: And then quickly I went to sleep BIRTHAY PARTY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights so bad Last Line: Literature is %just no damned %good %now, %yours or %anybody%else's BLACK AND WHITE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must have checked in drunk Last Line: What to do with %myself BLACK AND WHITE ROACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This headline in the hollywood paper says Last Line: From the booth and walked back to the men's %room BLACK SUN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caresse crosby published my first short story Last Line: If she'd had the chance BLADE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was no parking near the post office where BLASTED APART WITH THE FIRST BREATH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Running out of days Last Line: As the banister glints %in the early morning sun BLOCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the past two months the poems have Last Line: They might even remember %me BLOCKED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the orchid dies Last Line: Behind me, the day had really begun BLUE CHEESE AND CHILI PEPPERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These women are supposed to come Last Line: No damned progress %at all BLUE COLLAR SOLITUDE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picking up two-six-packs Last Line: Wiggling the right %toe %watching %it BLUE HEAD OF DEATH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to richard strauss Last Line: Know what to do BLUE MOON, OH BLEWEEWW MOOOOON HOW I ADORE YOU!, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I care for you, darling, I love you Last Line: Bow wow bow wow wow BLUE PIGEON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Getting a car wash today Last Line: Took a right at %vermont BLUEBIRD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography BLUEBIRD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bluebird in my heart that Last Line: Weep, do %you BODY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been %hanging here Last Line: My hands let go let go %let go BOIL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was making good with the girls on the assembly line at BONAPARTE'S RETREAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fred, they called him Last Line: And it's not %there %anymore BONE PALACE BALLET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As many interpretations of Last Line: And the volcano laughing BORN TO LOSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting in my cell Last Line: They put spillane in license plates BOY AND HIS DOG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's barry in his ripped walking shorts Last Line: He's aged a good many other people too BRAVO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summertime dogs %crushed on freeways Last Line: Let the music %play BRAVO!, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They applaud each work Last Line: Symphonie pathetique, indeed BREAKFAST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were in one of those after-hours places BRIGHT LIGHTS AND SERPENTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oftentimes I can't separate the Last Line: Walked out to the parking lot BRIGHT RED CAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There isn't any %justification Last Line: Strangling that %tiny place %you call %love BROWN AND SOLEMN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog jumps up on the bed Last Line: My parents didn't understand me either BRUCKNER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to bruckner now Last Line: Opening the morning mail BRUCKNER: 2, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bruckner wasn't bad %even though he got down Last Line: And the days are without end BULLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Actually, I do think that Last Line: With that %at %all BULLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was big and he was always on me Last Line: And nobody ever talked about him %again BUM ON THE LOOSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There wasn't a stove BURLESQUE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy, bill and I went every Last Line: As young as we were %ever going to %get BURN AND BURN AND BURN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to know a dutchman in a philly bar Last Line: My master, then and %now BURNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just before leaving east hollywood my cat got Last Line: Man, everything you touch turns to shit!' %he's right BUTTERFLIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best part is that Last Line: Read this candy-ass poem %wretchedly CANNED HEAT?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that I minded but I believe that my stint Last Line: I sat and waited for happier times CAPTAIN GOODWINE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One goes from being a poet Last Line: The best way %I knew how CAR WASH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got out, fellow said, 'hey!' walked toward Last Line: Sure,' I said, 'I've been there' CARLTON WAY OFF WESTERN AVE., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's whistling and clapping CATCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your niece came and left Last Line: It's literary history CAUSE AND EFFECT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I am nothing Last Line: I light a cigarette and %wait CERTAIN PRIDE HERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't care to have my writing Last Line: In the n.Y. Times %hands %down CHALLENGE TO THE DARK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shot in the eye Last Line: Their death not my life CHANGE OF HABIT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shirley came to town with a broken leg Last Line: Handsome he looked %when he did CHARISME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This woman keeps phoning me Last Line: I have a way with the ladies CHARLES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 92 years old %his tooth has been bothering him Last Line: The smell of freshly-baked cookies %follows me CHARLES, by BARRY EDGAR PILCHER Poem Source First Line: Bukowski Last Line: Next day his book sales went up Subject(s): Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994) CHARLES BUKOWSKI IS DEAD AT 73, by RICHARD RED HAWK Poem Source First Line: This is the part hank would have loved best Last Line: God have mercy on those of us %who are left to speak CHARLES THE LION-HEARTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always thought mary lou was skinny and CHICAGO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's like you, she said, he locks himself in Last Line: You never knew %it CHILDREN IN THE SKY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boys come up Last Line: There is nothing to do %now %but unpack CHINASKI, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parodies himself, romanticizes himself Last Line: And now let us go on to %more worthwhile things CHOPIN BUKOWSKI, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my piano Last Line: And they like it and they do not %like it CHRISTMAS EVE, ALONE,, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Evasion, my reasoning %is not CHRISTMAS POEM TO A MAN IN JAIL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello bill abbott Last Line: And have I placed the commas here %properly, abbot? CIGARETTE OF THE SUN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The headless dog snaps Last Line: You, you, you, %no mas, no more CIRCUS OF DEATH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped in wyoming to drink in a bar Last Line: Nobody said %goodbye CLASS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These boys have got class Last Line: Falls apart %so sad %again CLASSICAL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our english teacher in jr. High Last Line: Easy, thank you, lmrs. %gredis, thank %you CLASSICAL MUSIC AND ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no idea how it began Last Line: Life, helped me get %to %here CLAWS OF PARADISE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wooden butterfly Last Line: As the next while %walking in the sun CLEAN OLD MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I'll be %55 in a %week Last Line: Come to my %senses CLEANSING THE RANKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clever people slide downstream like Last Line: While %disliking you. Or %worse CLICK OF MIRACLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we going to the movies or not Last Line: They were going to the movies %too CLOSE TO GREATNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At one stage in my life COCKROACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cockroach crouched Last Line: Make them wait a %few months COFFEE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was having a coffee at the COFFEESHOP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has served me and I am Last Line: Then hell isn't going to %be %so bad COKE BLUES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you think some women want only your love Last Line: And then one %wonders again COLD PLUMS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eating cold plums in bed Last Line: At 5:30 in the evening COLD SUMMER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as bad as yours, fante Subject(s): Cancer (disease) COLD SUMMER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as bad as yours, fante Last Line: Might as well take a %swim COLORED BIRDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a highrise apt. Next door Subject(s): Social Problems COMBAT PRIMER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They called celine a nazi Last Line: And then I'm going to sleep COME BACK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mannheim it was always the same: start Last Line: My world returning to normal COMMENTS UPON MY LAST BOOK OF POESY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horses running Last Line: Laughing with a %fool COMPANION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not alone Last Line: Swaying on the %bough COMPANY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live by the harbor now Last Line: In the middle of the night COMPUTER CLASS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in a computer class Last Line: We can't find it on the menu? COMPUTER NOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the drunk %typer in hock Last Line: I just didn't know any %better and I %did CONCRETE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had set up the CONDITION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All up and down the avenues Last Line: Or as you read this: %your place now CONDITION BOOK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for death Last Line: Said %I love %you CONFESSION OF A GENIUS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During world war two Last Line: And yes I've been %there %ever %since CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, ONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got drunk once and told Last Line: Dinner %that night CONVERSATION NOT TO REMEMBER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Try shoveling sand, seems like there's nothing heavier Last Line: 3 or 4 hours, maybe %5 COOL BLACK AIR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often from my typing room I step out onto this small Last Line: I bang it %bang it %and wait COOPERATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She means well Last Line: And the sea is beautiful CORNERED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, they said it would come to CORRECTION TO A LADY OF POESY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Any ballplayer can tell you, diane Last Line: Children. They'll learn the real story %soon enough CORSAGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose jr. High was the worst Last Line: Then I faced the other way and %continued my %journey COUNSEL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cigarettes wetted with beer from Last Line: To help keep %my city %clean CRAZY TRUTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the broken egg on the floor Last Line: This life dancing in front of %mrs. Death CREATIVE WRITING CLASS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm guilty, I did take one Last Line: Than even he %had %expected CREDO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound of doom like an approaching cyclone Last Line: Sex with a %woman or a man CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Sanderson was the principal of Last Line: About it %just the way it %was CROWD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They love to huddle and chat away the Last Line: I have survived them %one %more %time CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, they begin out in a willow, I think Last Line: You look around and no longer %see any %old men CRUISING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Totally mentally ripped Last Line: Smile %paradise at %last CRUNCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much %too little Last Line: It will not say %no CRUNCH (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much %too little Last Line: And people are not good to each other CULTURE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a class bitch although all her Last Line: There was nothing else to do %I waved goodbye CURIOUS THING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known a great many women Last Line: Ladies have made %me so CURTAINS ARE WAVING AND PEOPLE WALK THROUGH ..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wait on life like a pregnancy, put the stethoscope to Last Line: No more policemen %no more %me CUT WHILE SHAVING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor is into collecting art Last Line: Out of there %moving toward something %else DAGWOOD AND BLONDIE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I swept underneath and got him Last Line: Meanwhile, it was a %startling %beautiful day DAMNATION OF BUK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Getting old, and older, concerned that Last Line: And the night will never %come DANGEROUS LADIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come visit and Last Line: And a marlboro in the other DANGLING CARROT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect poem will never be Last Line: Let us thank the gods DARK SHADES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never wear dark shades Last Line: And the joy behind %at the taco place DARK, AND DARKER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can find one hour of peace a day Last Line: It began so long ago DARKENING LIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are more and more Last Line: The cup of coffee as the %mudlark %strangles DARKLING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights you don't sleep Last Line: The venetian blinds closing us %all in DARKNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness falls upon humanity DARKNESS AND ICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The other day %I'm out at the track Last Line: You know %just a %little DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came in and all the timecards wer Last Line: Nd I sat down and went to work DAYS AND NIGHTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wrote a joyous and mad Last Line: But the semesters %pass, quiet %seasons %r.I.P DEAD AGAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bulls strut in pinwheel glory Last Line: Thank the god %who made %it DEAD NOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always wanted to ball Last Line: That's all I had left %that night DEAR MR. CHINASKI, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father liked edgar allan Last Line: They both were %right DEATH IN THE MODERN AGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am writing a novel now and one way or Last Line: Celebrates %its %greatness %now DEATH IS SMOKING MY CIGARS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know: I'm drunk once again Last Line: 5 god-damned minutes %and much %more DEATH OF A ROACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a place off western ave. DEATH OF AN ERA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room was a block away Last Line: On that end %stool %just in %time DEATH OF AN IDIOT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was writing three short stories a week DEATHBED BLUES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you can't stand the heat, he says, get out of the Last Line: A set of retreads instead DECLINE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting naked behind the house Last Line: It won't be long for any of %us DEFEAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to bruckner on the radio Last Line: I notice a wall socket %look, I've won DEFINING THE MAGIC, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A good poem is like a cold beer Last Line: A good poem knows when to %stop DEMISE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The son-of-a-bitch Last Line: With a belly like butter (in that big %house) was right DEPRESSION KID (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never had money but I did have a bike Last Line: I had become a %man DESCENT OF THE SPECIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mama %she liked ice cream, candy bars Last Line: To the works of %de sade DESTROYING BEAUTY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose Last Line: It's beyond me Subject(s): Troy DICK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose so %I was living in an attic in philadelphia Last Line: Ran me out %of town DING-DONG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came over with a rag around his Last Line: Love is what mattered, %he went on %and %furthermore DINNER, 1933, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my father ate Last Line: I didn't %live %in DINNER, PAIN & TRANSPORT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly going %the way of witches Last Line: Like these birds in my walls DINOSAURIA, WE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Born like this Subject(s): United States; America DINOSAURIA, WE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born like this Last Line: Awaiting the next chapter DISGUSTING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My editor-publisher who is about Last Line: You up to it DOG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single dog Last Line: Of ten thousand gods. %why is this DOG FIGHT 1990, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left wing down, I go after mosk Last Line: Kiss the sweet lips of this dirty %world %goodbye DOGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someplace in arizona %at the dog Last Line: Instead of mutilated %and murdered %forever DON'T CALL ME, I'LL CALL YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yeah sure, I'll be in unless I'm out Last Line: Stopped or opened %forever DON'T FORGET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is always somebody or something Last Line: I just burnt my fingers on %this %cigarette DON'T PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bruch lived to be 82 DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE WITH ANYBODY ELSE BUT ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To choose %wisely is half way Last Line: So any %problem you have %with me %is %yours DON'T TOUCH THE GIRLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's up seeing my doctor Last Line: Sure, I say and drive her on in DOOM AND SIESTA TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend is worried about dying Last Line: Circling over my %sagging mattress DOSTOEVSKY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the wall, the firing squad ready Last Line: Sharing the stinking dark with %my %brothers DOW AVERAGE DOWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you %first meet them their eyes Last Line: We believed like dogs %believe DOWN BY THE SEA, THE BEAUTIFUL SEA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were telling stories and %my little girl Last Line: Before it vanished behind one of the burned-out piers DOWNERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people Last Line: To %create %one DOWNTOWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody goes downtown anymore Last Line: Goes downtown anymore DOWNTOWN BILLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They used to call him Last Line: I have just taken %my %pills DOWNTOWN L.A., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throwing your shoe at 3 a.M. And smashing the window, then Subject(s): Los Angeles DRAWER OF FISH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He kept drawing fish DREAM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old grey-haired waitresses Last Line: Of my fellow %creatures DRIESER WASN'T SO HOT EITHER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is really a nice fellow Last Line: Let us bless the %gods and everything %else.' DRILL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our marriage book Last Line: Fields? I suppose I %will DRINK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest bar I was ever Last Line: And that was %that DRIVE THROUGH HELL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people are weary, unhappy and frustrated, the people are DRIVING TEST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drivers %in defense and anger DRUNK TANK JUDGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We walk and we drive away from the %courthouse. %justice DRUNK WITH THE BUDDHA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We buy the scandal sheets at the supermarket Last Line: Kick the shit out of half of tokyo DUCK AND FORGET IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today at the track Last Line: I keep him %away DUMMY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've lived together 3 or Last Line: Now that's settled EACH MAN'S HELL IS DIFFERENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get reports about a dear friend in Last Line: Never knowing %what you might have %been EAGLE OF THE HEART, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will they be writing about 2000 years from Last Line: Shadows %of %hell EAT YOUR HEART OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You just get home from the track after losing Last Line: The first drink, as always, is the best EDITOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in the kitchen - at the breakfastnook table Last Line: Beer - in the %dark EDUCATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that small inkwell desk EDWARD SBRAGIA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Puffing on tiny cigarette butts as the world washes to the Last Line: World washes to the %shore EGG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's 17. %mother, he said, how do I crack an Last Line: And try to stay out of %arguments ELVIS LIVES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy was going to take the bus out Last Line: Then he dropped the %first %one EMBRACERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always meet these gregarious Last Line: The masses at the age %of 4 EMILY BUKOWSKI, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother always attended the sunrise Last Line: She wasn't very %interesting %but few people %are EMPTY GOBLET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said to me: 'you got drunk and told mother Last Line: And pours much too slow END OF A SHORT AFFAIR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tried it standing up Last Line: Bathroom, even faster %than sperm END OF AN ERA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parties at my place were EPILOGUE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fante gone to hollywood Last Line: Big white %pill ESCAPE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you were starving and watching the Last Line: Nothing else made any %sense at %all ESCAPE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best part was ESCAPE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 --, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dogs who sleep at night Last Line: This dog %still %dreams about EVALUATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen 70,000 horse races Last Line: A fellow had to keep his %hand in the %action EVALUATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh yes, I'm a good guy Last Line: This more than difficult world EVENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earlier tonight %there was a fire in the Last Line: Turned on the radio %for something new EVERYBODY TALKS TOO MUCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When %the cop pulled me EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery Last Line: There is nothing here for death to %take away EYELESS THROUGH SPACE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There he is: Last Line: He'll be elected FACT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Careful poetry Last Line: To %die %safely FAIR STAND THE FIELDS OF FRANCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the awesome strumming of no Last Line: I love you FALL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a preacher on a uhf channel Last Line: The photo of john wayne blushed FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Car on its side in the moonlight Last Line: In the brilliant and lovely %moonlight FALL OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are closing the auto plants Last Line: With an all-american %cast FAME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some want it, I don't want it, I Last Line: Is a bigger fool than %his %following FAMOUS WRITER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a mailman Last Line: And then I felt somewhat better %but not %entirely, hardly %so FAN LETTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mr. Chinaski, you probably get many letters Last Line: Bathtub and ruminate. %yrs., %billy (chips) weatherton FAN LETTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I been readin' you for a long time now Last Line: Eat now %so goodbye %dora FANTE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every now and themn it comes back to Last Line: Ah, no need for that %bulldog FAREWELL MY LOVELY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She keeps coming back Last Line: Maybe fifteen minutes FAST LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus christ %the horses again Last Line: And get back %to work FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At one time Last Line: Is now %no longer famous FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a practical man Last Line: And saved on hospital %bills FEAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walks up to my volks Last Line: On a rainy wednesday %night FEAR AND MADNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barricaded here on the 2nd floor Last Line: I am in a small room again FEEL OF IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A. Huxley dies at 69 Last Line: Like %be %damned FEELING FAIRLY GOOD TONIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not fail as a writer Last Line: These words indented into the guts %of %time FELLOW COUNTRYMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the track Last Line: For a pretzel and a beer FIELD EXERCISES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is what they called them in the Last Line: And many of us %went FIGHT ON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty boy was tiring Last Line: And I thought about the %fight again FIGHTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't shoot pool, don't want Last Line: People who hang around %celluloid %usually %are FINAL SCORE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the track today Last Line: He did to %himself %happy %journey FINAL STORY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, there he is drunk again FINAL WORD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing to FINGER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drivers of automobiles Last Line: What a hell of a way %to not %live FINGERNAILS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nurse looked at FINGERNAILS; NOSTRILS; SHOELACES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gas line is leaking, the bird is out FINGERNAILS; NOSTRILS; SHOELACES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those times are gone now Last Line: The last race is here FINIS II, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all falter, give way, want to Last Line: Thinking again of the mad and %drunken %years FINISHED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ball comes up to the Last Line: Hell yes,' I say, 'anything %on tv' FINISHED?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The critics now have me Last Line: I have no intention of %quitting short %or late %or satisfied FIRE STATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We came out of the bar Last Line: Harry the horse and the corner %newsboy FIRST LOVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At one time Last Line: I had it all %and %I took it FIRST ONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After she died Last Line: I paid and walked out on the %boulevard and never looked back FISHERMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He comes out at 7:30 a.M.Every day Last Line: And waits for dinner FLASHING OF THE ODDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parking lot attendant, bobby, was funny Last Line: And the day went %on FLAT TIRE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got a flat on the freeway Last Line: Sliced into the %sky FLIGHT TIME TO NOWHERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are sitting together in the airport bar Last Line: Here at the bottom of the page FLOOR JOB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has a new apartment Last Line: I hear soft sounds from the night outside %and I am happy FLOPHOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You haven't lived Last Line: And cold / out / here Subject(s): Flop-houses FLOPHOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You haven't lived Last Line: It's dark %and cold %out %here Subject(s): Flop-houses FLOSS, BRUSH AND FLUSH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting, talking through the Last Line: I am a joke told %again %I sleep FLOWER LOVER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the valkerie mountains Last Line: Killed a %peacock %instead FLYING THROUGH SPACE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rang at 1:30 a.M. FOOL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in that cheap hotel room Last Line: A lighter %or her next %move FOOL DINES OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He met her at the quarterhorse races, a strawberry FOR A MAN WHO WALKS AROUND MY TYPEWRITER VERY OFTEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 --, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry about rejections, pard, Last Line: The phone has only rung once %wrong number FOR JANE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 225 days under grass FOR MARILYN M., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping keenly into bright ashes Last Line: I raise my drink a full minute %and smile FOR MY IVY LEAGUE FRIENDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many of those I met on the reading circuit or heard about on FOR SOME FRIENDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of cunning Last Line: Ah, my friends %my friends %my friends FOR THE CONCERNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you get married they think you're FOR THE FOXES, THE DEFAMERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't feel sorry for me FOR THE LADY WHO HATES IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's downstairs singing, playing her Last Line: As if magic had %become normal FOR THE MERCY-MONGERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is justified %all dying is justified Last Line: Lifts up its %color FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T WAIT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting here at age 72 thinking about possibly being Last Line: In spite of you, %goodbye FORGET IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, listen, when I die I don't want any crying, just get the FORTY YEARS AGO IN THAT HOTEL ROOM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off of union avenue, 3 a.M., jane and I had been FOUR YOUNG GANG-BANGERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know how women can get Last Line: You're certainly right,' %I replied FOURTEEN DOLLARS AND THIRTY-TWO CENTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hair in the soup Last Line: De sade grins in the %dark FRACTIONAL NOTE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are burning FREAKY TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seven suns dimmed into one Last Line: Exploded into a %beautiful %day FREEWAY LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some fool kept blocking me and I finally got around him, and FRIEND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can remember starving in a FROM AN OLD DOG IN HIS CUPS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my friend, it's awful, worse FROZEN FOOD SECTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He'd been fighting it for years Last Line: You're going to %forget the %paprika...' FUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pulled her dress of Last Line: I try it %again FULL CIRCLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sanford liked to play dirty Last Line: One more dirty trick in a dirty trick %world FULL MOON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red flower of love Last Line: I draw upon my cigarette FUNGOES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hit 'em high, %make the fielder go back for it Last Line: Bastards like that really %get on my nerves FUNNY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you are liked for all the wrong Last Line: While I sat %demeaned and %depressed FUNNY GUY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Schopenhauer couldn't abide the masses FUNNY MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Geomethel liked to hold saturday afternoon parties FUNNY?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As my wife never understands my Last Line: To david letterman FUZZ, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 3 small boys run toward me Last Line: And %3 %candy bars GALLERY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw this photo of GALLON OF GAS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shit, said wren, we're out of gas Last Line: Skipping through the brush GAMBLERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had taken a tremendous beating GARDEN TALK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great blaze of noon,' said Last Line: To get away %from %all of them GAY PAREE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cafes in paris are just like you imagine GENIUS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He %usually wore a vest and Last Line: Glad %when he left GENIUS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man sometimes forgets who Last Line: Out %but %himself GENTLEMAN AND THE BASTARD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The l.A. Rams in those days had Last Line: To any ram %games %since GERMAN BAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had lost the last race big Last Line: Nobody wins. %ask caesar GET CLOSE ENOUGH AND YOU CAN'T SEE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this time Last Line: Like %to my %ladies GETTING MY MONEY'S WORTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water was cold and filled with bits of seaweed Last Line: The good life of the california %sportsman GETTING OLD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her when I was in the left lane Last Line: And %wrote this poem GIRLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to spend 3 days a week Last Line: Until the next %time GIRLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been looking at Last Line: Through %5 years' %worth GIRLS AND THE BIRDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are more beautiful than Last Line: There'll be some %laughs %tonight GIRLS COMING HOME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girls are coming home in their cars Last Line: Around here %at 5:35 p.M GIRLS FROM NOWHERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girls from nowhere came Last Line: And they %did %it GIRLS IN PANTYHOSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Schoolgirls in pantyhose Last Line: But the bus will %get them first GIRLS WE FOLLOWED HOME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girls we once followed home are Last Line: Bright dresses %I remember GLASGOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you mean in scotland? Last Line: Hard-on since %1968 GLENN MILLER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago GLOOMY LADY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits up there Last Line: Before she writes %her poems GOD'S MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were 10 or 11 years old Last Line: The light changed and %we crossed %over GODS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here on the 2nd floor Last Line: The gods smile down GOING AWAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the last door Last Line: Past the last %last %word GOING ON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down at north avenue 21 you just slept on the floor and GOING OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet slide of the luger Last Line: Shut %hard %pal GOLD IN YOUR EYE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather was a tall german Last Line: And I, we know each %other GOLDFISH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My goldfish stares with watery eyes Last Line: That we are the same? Subject(s): Goldfish GONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It left like the ladies of old GONE AWAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were not quite looking at one Last Line: Slammed the door %behind him GOOD GANG, AFTER ALL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep hearing from the old dogs GOOD JOB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some jobs you like Last Line: Good enough %right %then GOOD LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house with 7 or 8 people Last Line: Want to speak to %allan GOOD LOSER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red race %texas %and age Last Line: He's got nothing to do GOOD MORNING, HOW ARE YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: $250,000 home, swimming pool, tennis court GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music of the worm Last Line: And flying fish will still continue to %fly GOOD OLD MACHINE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get too many Last Line: I liked that %phone call GOOD SHOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not enough that he's one of Last Line: Come here and %bite %this GOOD TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don't want GOOD TIME GIRL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You had your crowd Last Line: Parties, you son of a %bitch! GOOD TIMES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been sad and hungover Last Line: The year was 1953 and she was very proud GOODBYE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady is passing with the tray Last Line: Tired of death, you %tried like that GRASS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the window %I watch a man with a Last Line: Flat on their spring backs %and smiling GRAVEL OF SUNLIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know what li po said when asked if he'd rather be an Last Line: Pissed-on, %diddled GREAT JAZZ, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You keep getting an idea Last Line: Last, at last, at %last GREAT SHOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went to visit my friend Last Line: To have bacon with %her %eggs GREAT SLOB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's getting fatter and fatter Last Line: Like %everybody %else GREEK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guy in the front court can't Last Line: I have fastened to him already GREEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been drunk in front of cracked bathroom mirrors Last Line: Close enough %all by %itself GROUNDER TO THE SHORTSTOP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pased from one important man Last Line: With all the gold %in her teeth GUEST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We got drunk Last Line: Barked about nothing GUILLOTINE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came from south carolina Last Line: It made them think %of home %and rex %says %'hello.' GURU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big black beard Last Line: Dinky dog of %terror HAND-OUTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I am hit Last Line: In %and %give HANDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not even drinking Last Line: Yesterday I was %very %depressed HANDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a fairly large man HANGING THERE ON THE WALL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to look across the room Last Line: A painting nobody would ever see %except me HANGOVERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've probably had more of them Last Line: Nobody %but myself %amen HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wagner was an Last Line: Does have some %virtue HAPPY LIFE OF THE TIRED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neatly in tune with Last Line: It's so %muggy HARD TIMES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I got out of my car down at the docks HARD TIMES ON CARLTON WAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody else was killed last night Last Line: The 12 dead roses look at me HARDLY NIRVANA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This guy %he's got a crazy eye Last Line: We know something HE ALSO FLOSSES EVERY DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strangler has %murdered and sexually molested Last Line: Brown sneakers with black %shoelaces. %happy new %year HE BEATS HIS WOMEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know, writers will arrive and knock on HE EVEN LOOKED LIKE A NICE GUY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He packaged it up neatly in different sections Last Line: It was very strange HE KNOWS US ALL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hell crawls through the window Last Line: Off looking for you, %my friend? HEAT WAVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another one Last Line: Written in the 19th %century HELL HATH NO FURY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even when starving Last Line: As hard as a %writer HELL IS A LONELY PLACE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was rather diminished Last Line: In the year of our %lord HELL YES, I'LL GO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am standing around the track after the first race Last Line: Always been a war HELLO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes even writing doesn't help Last Line: Your other keyboard. %hello, there HELLO, BARBARA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 25 years ago Last Line: Guys like me %seldom %do HELLO, HAMSUN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After two-and-one-half bottles Last Line: Swimming upward %sideways %down HELP WANTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a crazed young man and then found this book written HELPING THE OLD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was standing in line at the bank today HEMINGWAY NEVER DID THIS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the famous writer but he had walked into all the Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) HERE I AM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk at 3 a.M. At the bottom of my 2nd bottle Last Line: Me %later %for you HERE WE GO AGAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked out to my car Last Line: And cat food and maybe onions too HERO AND THE SHORTSTOP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The babe would get drunk and dangle rabbit Last Line: About it, and then you have %all the others HEY DOLLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I learned much about writing when Last Line: When to go wild %and how HEY, HEY, HEY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes it's bad or just ordinary Last Line: Crawl the walls of your %brain HIGHSCHOOL GIRLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were always alright with me Last Line: All right %with me HOG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He couldn't get the puck into the net Last Line: He knew his job HOLD ON, IT'S A BELLY LAUGH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would be good to get Last Line: What you %flush %away HOLLYWOOD RANCH MARKET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was 32 years younger Last Line: Fix the streets anymore HOOKERS, THE MADMEN AND THE DOOMED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today at the track Last Line: And we all went on about our business HOORAY SAY THE ROSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hooray say the roses, today is blamesday Last Line: And that is why you like us HORSE AND FIST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boxing matches and the racetracks Last Line: And the last flash of the %tote HORSE FLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you see is what you see Last Line: And the oranges and apples %roll away HORSEMEAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it is on Last Line: Still can't be %stopped HORSESHIT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse stood in the yard and Last Line: October and all the poor had left town except me HORSESHOE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was hot, she was so hot Last Line: And got into the hot %water HOT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's fire in the fingers and there's fire in the shoes and there's HOT DOG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost every time %after we started in Last Line: With eyes as beautiful %as those on that dog HOT MONTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got 3 women coming down in Last Line: The works of %de sade HOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are building a house Last Line: And return to my room HOW COME YOU'RE NOT UNLISTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men phone and ask me that Last Line: But the inspiration is there HOW DO THEY GET YOUR NUMBER?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs of hell have claws like cats Last Line: For you somewhere! Ha, ha, ha...' HOW I GOT STARTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has taken me decades to realize HOW IS YOUR HEART, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During my worst times HOW TO BE A GREAT WRITER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several months ago I was sent some tapes Last Line: They certainly must be %something %real HUG THE DARK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turmoil is the god Last Line: Stay away from god %remain disturbed %slide HUGE EAR RINGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to pick her up Last Line: Now she puts on her %mascara as we %drive along HUH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In %germany france italy HUH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead in my shoes, scooped empty Last Line: Meanwhile, a good night's %sleep will %do HUMMINGBIRD CHANCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moments of agony and moments of glory Last Line: But not dead yet HUNGER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been hungry many times Last Line: I closed my mouth and kept walking HUNK OF ROCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nina was the hardest of them Last Line: Blazing %in the %lamplight HUSTLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The readings in those college towns were hell Last Line: It was just like being back %home HYMN FROM THE HURRICANE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had flown a thousand miles to see her Last Line: Just for old time's %sake I AM CHASTISED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead can sleep Last Line: From frogs and fortunes I AM KNOWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went over the other day Last Line: The remainder of the day was bound to be better I CAN'T STOP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People keep telling me Last Line: This is just another %boring poem I DIDN'T WANT TO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am always exposing myself Last Line: Be faithful to the end I FALL INTO IT WITHOUT TRYING..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She confessed to me Last Line: And waited for it %to end I HAVE SHIT STAINS IN MY UNDERWEAR TOO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear them outside Last Line: 25 foot flames licking toward %doom I HAVE THIS ROOM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in whatever neighborhood Last Line: Son-of-a-bitch what suffering is I INHERIT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old guy next door died Last Line: Hell out of my way! I KNOW YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked d. H. Lawrence Last Line: With his worm-hole eyes I LOVE YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the oor of this shanty and there she lay Last Line: At the first %bar I MADE A MISTAKE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I reached up into the top of the closet Last Line: Wondering where the good luck %went I MEET A VEGETARIAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had ten cents hot dog night Last Line: Turned and faced the toteboard, %she laughed I MEET THE FAMOUS POET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This poet had long been famous I MET A GENIUS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met a genius on the train Last Line: It was the first time I'd %realized %that I MIGHT GET TRADED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to drink with jane I USED TO FEEL SORRY FOR HENRY MILLER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he got old he stopped writing, dabbled with Last Line: Away at the racetrack I WANT A MERMAID, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speaking about going crazy Last Line: Plate glass window %and wait I WANTED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT ..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This guy says that for $845 I can Last Line: Nobody who goes %will be I'LL TAKE IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I'm going crazy, that's all right I'M A FAILURE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to take the back off Last Line: Eyes to knock out %the sun I'M IN LOVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's young, she said Last Line: And all my poems were %false I'M NOT A MISOGYNIST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More and more I'VE SEEN TOO MANY GLAZED-EYED BUMS SITTING UNDER A BRIDGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sit on the couch Last Line: I'll surely go %first the last %way ICECREAM PEOPLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady has me temporarily off the bottle Last Line: The icecream people make me feel good, %inside and out IDEAL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waxmans, she said Last Line: Uh huh, I said in honor of %the dead IDIOT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His name was eddie and he had a Last Line: Had managed to %break eddie's leg ILL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being very ill and very weak is a very strange Last Line: Just like everybody %else IMAGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits in the chair across from me Last Line: I'm parked now IMAGINATION AND REALITY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are many single women in the world Last Line: One of those coffee cups without him %jumping out IMMORTAL WINO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old jazz place Last Line: Between sets %their sets IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MURDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roaches spit out Last Line: We presume %by the %cats IN AND OUT OF THE DARK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A warrior Last Line: Into %the %house IN OTHER WORDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The egyptians loved the cat Last Line: We may try to do to spoil it IN THE BOTTOM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have to lay down like an animal Last Line: Lay down and wait like %an animal IN THE LOBBY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of hell are well Last Line: I would have nobody be %me %now IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Branching out, grubbing down Last Line: Turn out the lights and %wait IN THIS CAGE SOME SONGS ARE BORN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write poetry, worry, smile Last Line: We are nothing more IN THIS CITY NOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives' heads are Last Line: The rest %of it too IN TRANSIT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The french border guard had a black waxed Last Line: Out there, truly %refreshing INACTIVE VOLCANO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bartenderat musso's Last Line: Wait %and %see INDEPENDENCE DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the 4th of july and I was Last Line: Go easy, I am one tough %son of a bitch INDIAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old indian in texas Last Line: Yeah, I think it's good, %I told him INSANE ALWAYS LOVED ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the subnormal Last Line: He grins at %me INSANITY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes there's a crazy one in the street Last Line: Remember that christ also was insane INSPECTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a small dusty town in east texas Last Line: The parade could %begin INTELLECTUAL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She writes %continually %like a long nozzle Last Line: As if %it hadn't happened INTERLUDE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was on western avenue Last Line: Ducking my head down %into the night INTERLUDE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's been raining forever here Last Line: Then I'll snap out of it. %maybe INTERVIEW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you getting mellow? He asked Last Line: Turning off the tape machine INTERVIEW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would you do if you had 5 minutes to Last Line: He looked pretty %satisfied INTERVIEWERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The interviewers come around Last Line: Anything behind so you %have to %come back INTERVIEWS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young men from the underground Last Line: Some fried chicken %buk INVASION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't know that INVITATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey chinaski Last Line: When in doubt %pass out IRON MIKE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We talk about this film Last Line: Are never finally the %teeth of love IT GOT AWAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost another poem Last Line: Waiting for %the big %one IT'S A SHAME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night the dogs came by to say IT'S DIFFICULT FOR THEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some university profs Last Line: Living, dying or about to be %bvorn, uh %huh IT'S DIFFICULT WHEN BANANAS EAT MONKEYS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were standing around IT'S FUNNY, ISN'T IT? #2, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were kids IT'S OURS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is always that space there IT'S SLOW TONIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here I sit again Last Line: Fools forever. %gladly. %now IT'S STRANGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange when famous people die Last Line: We become troubled IT'S THE WAY YOU PLAY THE GAME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it love Last Line: Into the hydrangea JACK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack with the long hair Last Line: Sliding down the beanstalk JACK-KNIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you see the large Last Line: And we move onto %the boulevard JACKALS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the years went on I seemed to have more luck Last Line: Not a jackal in %sight JAM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That harbor freeway south through the downtown Last Line: Somehow, maybe %to %die JANE AND PRINCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all lived together Last Line: I like it %very much JANUARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here %you see this JEFFERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His blood-smearded horizons %his hawks casting shadows of %doom Last Line: His gigantic crushed earth %bellows %against dumb %time JOCKEY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes write about the 30's because Last Line: But I'm still hardly tempted to %adore %them JOKE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It often happens when the party is Last Line: No wait, I've forgotten %it %you're %lucky JON EDGAR WEBB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a lyric poem period down in new orleans, pounding JOURNEY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 junkies Last Line: This is %some of it JUNKIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She shoots up in the neck, she told Last Line: And not much chance for anybody JUST ANOTHER BAD AFFIAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paris %is the place you've heard about Last Line: Let us quietly %say goodbye JUST TRYING TO GET A LITTLE SERVICE ...., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You take the train from K.O., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was easy, fat as a hummingbird Last Line: I always was a poor winner KENYON REVIEW AND OTHER MATTERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was good being young but I didn't know it, a starving Last Line: I walked into %them KID, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had trouble hitting left Last Line: Right in the %race %come %september KILLER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consistency is terrific Last Line: Falls upon flowers KILLER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was one of those days Last Line: Drinking jack daniels %with beer %chasers KILLER GETS READY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a good one Last Line: 8 or 10 miles -- %was perfect KILLER SMILES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old girl friends still phone Last Line: I always hang up %justified KILLING LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minor and trivial complaints Last Line: Sits in the corner %smiling KISS-OFF, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was one of those Last Line: Around, we all came all %around KNIFER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You knifed me, he said, you told pink eagle Last Line: Innocence and I might consider %yours KRUTZ, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in mannheim when my agent phoned me Last Line: Feeling better %but not %much LA FEMME FINIE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fine poetess Last Line: Why she hasn't %written lately LACK OF ALMOST EVERYTHING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The essence of the belly Last Line: Palm springs and tell her %what's wrong LADIES OF SUMMER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies of summer will die like the rose Last Line: Before taking them LADIES' MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was hardly a wilderness area Last Line: A truly beautiful %animal LADY IN RED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lived in this house LADY POET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was 7 or 8 years ago Last Line: Or even %wants to? LADY WHO LOOKS YOUNG FOREVER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I picked up the phone, answered as her voice rushed Last Line: She was absolutely %right LAID UP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is it, sucker, the dead nightingale Last Line: Quite %not quite %not %not %quite LAST CALL (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Totally written out at 2 a.M. Last Line: Try not to be %them %please LAST DRINK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's just a handler Last Line: Decisions for %that %son-of-a- %bitch LAST GENERATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was back east %I had a drink on the plane Last Line: Bring on the next reading LAST SEAT AT THE END, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was always studying the wood of the Last Line: And nothing lost %to the %unexpected LAST SHOT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, once again, the last drink, the last LAST SONG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving the freeway while Last Line: Is not so important %after %all LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You stop agonizing for a while Last Line: This drizzling %suckerfish %nightmare LATE LATE LATE POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think about the time in LATE NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man on the radio speaks of the Last Line: Get up to go to the bedroom %to %sleep LATE PAYMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come on, let's go see him, this old guy is a Last Line: Is a kick in the %ass LAUGH LITERARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, man, don't tell me about the poems you Last Line: Please read our magazines before %submitting LAUGHING HEART, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your life is your life Last Line: The gods wait to delight %in %you LAZY IN SAN PEDRO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet %sunbathing naked in your own backyard Last Line: Eat apricots, and the typewriter %sits upstairs %alone LEANING ON WOOD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are 4 or 5 guys at the Last Line: Wins. Ask %caesar LEGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Houdini was caught off guard Last Line: Smattering of applause LEGS AND WHITE THIGHS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 3 of us were somewhere Last Line: Thighs did for us then LEGS, HIPS AND BEHIND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's let the bombs go LET IT ENFOLD YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Either peace of happiness Last Line: He waved %back %at %me LET IT GO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pissing drunk Last Line: Can be %quite an %adventure LET ME TELL YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hell is built Last Line: In the %morning %hell LET NOT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let not the people be your Last Line: Searching for %anything LET NOTHING EVER HAPPEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In conjunction with LETTER FROM TOO FAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wrote me a letter from a small Last Line: And went to bed LETTER TO A FRIEND WITH DOMESTIC PROBLEMS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello carl LETTERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits me on the floor Last Line: Ah, she has a beautiful soul! LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look there. %the one you considered killing yourself for Last Line: You turn off the engine and %follow her in LIBERTY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The next time you listen to borodin Last Line: The next time you listen to borodin, %remember LIFE OF THE KING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I awaken at 11:30 a.M. Last Line: Thank him %all the way LIFEDANCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The area dividing the brain and the soul Last Line: Some lose both and become: accepted LIGHT BROWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light brown stare Last Line: So very long %ago LIKE A CHERRY SEED IN THE THROAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked in that bright light Last Line: Good night, sweet %little %motherfucker LIKE A FLOWER IN THE RAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cut the middle fingernail of the middle Last Line: The cole slaw too LIKE A MOVIE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the earliest possible day Last Line: It is better than %the %alternative LIKE ALL THE YEARS WASTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday drunken alice %gave me Last Line: We go in %together LILIES IN MY BRAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies storm my brain Last Line: And the death of me, you and %the katzenjammer %kids LIONESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, the lioness is hungry Last Line: The lioness is %satisfied and full LISP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had her for 3 units Last Line: Still has me typng %love songs LISZTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On and on we go Last Line: Goring %gouging %rafting %grafting %gardening %going %gone LITERARY ROMANCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met her somehow through correspondence or poetry or magazines Last Line: Either for love %or for %poetry LITTLE ATOMIC BOMB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, just give me a little atomic bomb Last Line: Send me one before somebody else %does LITTLE CAFE ON 6TH STREET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went in about 1:30 p.M. Last Line: I might not %go back there %either LITTLE GIRLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in northern california Last Line: We have not corresponded since LITTLE SLEEP AND PEACE OF STILLNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whores at the all-american burger Last Line: It hasn't been a very good %winter LITTLE THEATER IN HOLLYWOOD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sam the whorehouse man Last Line: As do the days and the nights LIVING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing ever happened in the mexican bar, I went there Last Line: And switched from wine to vodka LOCKED IN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning, %it touches the nerves Last Line: I feed the animals. %it's easy LOCKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 16 and one-half inch Last Line: I haven't seen either of them %since LONGSHOT (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's not for you, man Last Line: A long afternoon %for both of us LONGSHOT (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, I had lost much blood LOOK BACK, LOOK UP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was celine married Last Line: See you at another %time %baby LOOK HERE!, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my life %while walking around Last Line: There's not much else I %can do LOOKING FOR A JOB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lady whose poems I see LOOSELY LOOSELY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loosely in the universe, undone Last Line: Alleluliah! Alleluliah! Alleluliah! LORD BYRON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He looked like lord byron Last Line: Milk free drinks %outa LOST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can't we can't win it Last Line: Than doves or switchbrakes or %love LOST AND THE DESPERATE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have been reading a book about a rich literary lady LOST SOUL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, they warned me it would happen Last Line: Move off to the clubhouse LOUSY MAIL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drinking up here, looking out at the lights of Last Line: Kind at the same %time %how? LOVE & FAME & DEATH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sits outside my window now Last Line: Is to become suddenly %quiet LOVE (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Answering a letter to somebody in alaska Last Line: I pick up the phone, say 'hello,' %and %wait LOVE (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, he said, gas Last Line: He was pretty good %that day LOVE AND COURAGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one I liked was where cagney Last Line: All the beatings he has taken %were worthwhile LOVE FOR THE FIRST WHORE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feet of cheese Last Line: And lay down in my blue bedroom LOVE POEM FOR ALL THE WOMEN I HAVE KNOWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the women %all their kisses the Last Line: Held I have been %held LOVE POEM TO A STRIPPER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 50 years ago I watched the girls LOVELY COUPLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had to take a shit Last Line: Sometimes you need %people like that LOVER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that apartment in east hollywood Last Line: I hoped that it would be a female voice LUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once / we were young / at this / machine / drinking / smoking / typing Last Line: Closing / space Subject(s): Luck LUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's bad about all Last Line: People walk by LUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After decades and decades of poverty Last Line: Or sometimes it can take %70 %years LUCK OF THE WORD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the years Last Line: For the reader %and %the writer LUCK WAS NOT A LADY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being half-young I sat about the bars Last Line: I heard the sound of the %engine LUCKY ONES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stuck in the rain on the freeway LUNCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel gypped by dunces Last Line: And rolls over into %another dream MACHO MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rings. %I answer Last Line: Leaps upon the %bedcovers Subject(s): Machismo MAD ENOUGH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you gotta have wars Last Line: Not about all that MADMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being Last Line: With the yellow paint flaking off %showing areas of %steady grey %beneath MADNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't beat the walls with my fists Last Line: One but I wasn't sure MADNESS?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, he said, admit it Last Line: And said, forget it, friend MAGIC CURSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never liked skid-row and so I stayed away from the soup MAGIC MACHINE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked the old records that MAGICIAN, GONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They go one by one and as they do it gets closer MAHLER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rings and somebody says Last Line: Of a great jew MAIL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mail gets heavier Last Line: As the centuries fall %away %in their rotten %swift %luxury MAILBAG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A schizophrenic Last Line: I've been to %austin MAIN COURSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus christ,' he told me, 'you know rita and I split up' MAKING IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a frenetic wretch of a man Last Line: Side by side %together MAMA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am %in the ground Last Line: He is %very bad %company MAN AT THE PIANO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man at the piano Last Line: The %black swan burns MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fuck, he was small MAN IN THE SUN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She reads to me from the new yorker Last Line: That you have been wasting %your time MAN WITH THE BEAUTIFUL EYES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were kids Last Line: Many people %would have to %die MAN'S BEST FRIEND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told the guy - he was watering his lawn Last Line: You gotta know I liked him plenty MAN?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter said this when she was 5 Last Line: Sang and %laughed, me loudest MANX, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have we gone wrong again? Last Line: That none of us %can see MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an MASSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Starving in a philadelphia winter MAYBE TOMORROW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looked like %bogart Last Line: Bogie's not dead %yet MAYBE WE'LL SEE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime soon Last Line: From doing things %to ourselves ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women don't know how to love Last Line: Into the other room ME AGAINST THE WORLD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a kid Last Line: Then I felt better %much better ME AND CAPOTE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can still see us MEAN AND STINGY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, we don't give enough parties Last Line: I'll hang up this poem MEANING OF IT ALL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born next to cold dogs and Last Line: Born again %and %again and again MEEK HAVE INTERITED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I suffer at this Last Line: Some suicides are never %recorded MELANCHOLIA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The history of melancholia Last Line: There is something wrong with me %besides %melancholia MELT-DOWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hemingway %when he couldn't write Subject(s): Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) MEMORY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've memorized all the fish in the sea Last Line: The courage of my memory MENTION OF SOME LUCKY PAY-OFFS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the things about being a writer Last Line: Let me go on to %other %subject matter MERMAID, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had to come to the bathroom for something Last Line: Something %and I left MERRY, MERRY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let's see %who's on my christmas list Last Line: And then, my friend, there's you MESSAGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been sitting in this Last Line: It might be %with death MET A MAN ON THE STREET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girlfriend came in Last Line: I have been robbed of %my filth MICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father caught the baby mice Last Line: My father had won again MIRACLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just listened to this MIRACLE IS THE SHORTEST TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know %it was very good Last Line: As these walls %so quietly %shift MIRACLE MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this neighborhood %about 4 blocks north Last Line: And here's %this saint %without a name MIRROR GAME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She writes: you'll Last Line: Close the doors %groan MOCKINGBIRD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mockingbird had been following the cat Last Line: To bargain it to another place %summer was over MODEL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be like that Last Line: For over 70 years %now MODERN LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just lost another poem in this Last Line: As he market went %down %and van gogh %up MOMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For wagner the gods of valhalla also burn in the Last Line: And touch the %cat %impossible MONKEY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer saturday afternoon Last Line: Something would %turn %up MORE ARGUMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke, she said, don't you love rilke? Last Line: Grieg. Nothing changed. Nothing %ever changed. Nothing MORE MAIL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I awakened about 10:30 a.M. Last Line: Belly and never said another word MOST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the fishhead singing Last Line: Don't call back! You sound like a jerk! MOTHER AND PRINCESS TINA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In high school the classes were arranged alphabetically and burns Last Line: Class of summer %'39 MOVIE CRITICS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finished Last Line: Useless %after %all MURDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Competition, greed, desire for fame MUSE INTERRUPTS MY RANT AT CHARLES BUKOWSKI OVER HIS POPULARITY .., by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Last Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Subject(s): Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MUSINGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first is just a bum Last Line: So much less than the mad or %the nearly mad? MY BEST FRIEND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a bad night Last Line: And we left it %like that MY BIG MOMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a 21-year-old boy in new orleans I wasn't worth MY BUDDY (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must wash this buddha that sits on my desk Last Line: How did he get in %here MY CAT, THE WRITER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I am sitting in front of this MY COMPANION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pissing in the toilet bowl Last Line: Rapidly %five times %then %stops MY COMPUTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What? They say, you got a Last Line: Who lost her %sheep %or her %computer MY COMRADES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one teaches Last Line: Lowest of the breed MY DOCTOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked into the waiting room Last Line: A horrible woman %his wife was MY FATHER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He carried a piece of Last Line: For the first time %I sang MY FATHER AND THE BUM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I decided to be a writer Last Line: All the scabs and blackheads were worth it MY FATHER'S BIG-TIME FLING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came home from grammar school Last Line: And it made me %very happy MY FAVORITE MOVIE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look back now MY FIRST COMPUTER POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I gone the way of the deathly death Last Line: So this is the beginning %not the %end MY FRIEND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved bar room fights Last Line: It's as decent a thing as a man %can know MY FRIEND, ANDRE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kid used to teach at kansas u Last Line: Isn't so painful %after all MY FRIEND, HOWIE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dirty little bugger Last Line: A newspaper and a few beers? MY GARDEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the sun and in the rain Last Line: Blooming all the time MY GERMAN BUDDY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight Last Line: Chill %he's here %now MY GROUPIE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last saturday in the Last Line: Whether it's good poetry or bad acid MY LITERARY FLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keeps evolving and there is more Last Line: They only want to %make sure MY MOVIE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 16 years old Last Line: As we ever got MY STYLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got sick of the bar MY WORST REJECTION SLIP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came to me when I was living in Last Line: Somebody with %more common %sense NAKED AT 92 DEGREES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little to do on a hot night but swat at Last Line: Imagination to %even %scream NANA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has fucked 200 men in ten states Last Line: Earth for the past %5000 years NATURE POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are 50,000 light years Last Line: Looking at the white flower NAZI, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suicide Last Line: God's mark %like a swastika NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm at the racetrack every day Last Line: Shakespeare had it right NEON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today at the track they gave Last Line: A day-glow %inferno of %festering %hell NERVES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twitching in the sheets -- Last Line: I hate the mornings more than %any man NERVOUS PEOPLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You go in for an item - take it to the clerk at the register - he NEW HOMELESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've %been driving down this tree-lined street for Last Line: Some will %always be %classically %screwed NEW WAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A different fight now, warding off the weariness of age Last Line: Paris in the dark NEW WOMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are sitting with the new Last Line: Billy thong had killed it %before I did NICE DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virus holds %the concepts give way like rotten Last Line: In the blazing midday of %mourning NICE TRY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Best dream I ever Last Line: An angel %some other %time NIGHT CAP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no avenging angel or red burning devil Last Line: In the thirties %thank you NIGHT I FUCKED MY ALARM CLOCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once %starving in philadelphia Last Line: And the light in their kitchen was %out NIGHT I SAW GEORGE RAFT IN VEGAS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Everything is the same agai NIGHT ON A VISA CARD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I finished my wine Last Line: Without having %to say %anything NIGHT QUARTERHORSE RACING, HOLLYWOOD PARK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the drunk driver's class Last Line: I am the class %intellectual NIGHT SWEATS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days of hell arrive on schedule Last Line: Only hell lives %on NILE RUNS NORTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked into the men's crapper Last Line: Observation put to action %is the essence %of art NIRVANA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not much chance Last Line: Tires %in the %snow NO CHANCE IN POMONA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This babe in the grandstand Last Line: They charge %50 cents NO DICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reading poetry in this poetry magazine Last Line: She looks at me. 'I know,' she answers NO GURU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place in the heart that NO LADY GODIVA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to my place drunk Last Line: Issued by a better %world NO LOVE SONGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I used valet parking at the track, it's only NO MORE, NO LESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Editor, critic, bigot, wit Last Line: This paper %and all the %etceteras NO NONSENSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faulkner loved his whiskey Last Line: He trashed / it Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse NO NONSENSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am perishable and that's the best Last Line: The last frog puffs and %jumps NO SALE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just sat in the bar Last Line: I had no argument %with %that NO TITLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All theories %like cliches Last Line: Wish us luck NO WIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To live in a jungle Last Line: That's what this life %is NO WING HIGH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll settle for the 6 horse Last Line: Like the opening %of flowers NOBODY HOME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in this nice place Last Line: One of them is going to change NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stupefied after a week's drinking and Last Line: Stone cold crazy %once again NON-URGENT POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had this fellow write me that NOT FROM THE SAME MOULD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was sitiing here, drinking a glass of Last Line: And you can't %spit them %out NOT LISTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My horse was the grey NOT MUCH SINGING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits there %big in hs chair Last Line: Named the %baby: %nero NOTE LEFT ON THE DRESSER BY A LADY FRIEND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wine: at present you are buying about 60 bottles Last Line: Get ready, %get set, %go! NOTE ON REJECTION SLIPS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not very good Last Line: If I %have %one NOTE ON THE MASSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Private hells made public Last Line: Consider yourself %blessed in the %dark NOTE TO A LADY WHO EXPECTED RUPERT BROOKE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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:, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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:, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think: if ludwig were alive today Last Line: Ever find his %beloved NOTES UPON A HOT STREAK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been driving to the racetrack Last Line: I smile and drive on in NOTHING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was in Last Line: That %made sense NOTHING IS AS EFFECTIVE AS DEFEAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always carry a notebook with you Last Line: Of them: he could sure %talk about %it NOVELS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To reach here Last Line: The mornings are the worst NOW (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, %now some eat to forget and some drink to forget and some Last Line: Fingernails %he's %the best NOW (3), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had boils the size of tomatoes Last Line: Like I have it %now NOW SHE'S FREE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd tell them to have an unhappy love Last Line: Right up the pickle %barrel NOWHERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was coming off an affair that had gone badly Last Line: In a week and a half NURSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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!, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I drove past the hospital Last Line: That nobody ever %saw ODD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights %like this night Last Line: Waiting on death can be perfectly peaceful OFF AND ON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At times I still consider coughing it up: gas pipe, 19th floor Last Line: Be %like right %now OH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bar Last Line: Lightning %somebody %laughs OH YES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been so OH, I WAS A LADIES' MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You Last Line: Missed %at %all OH, YES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are worse things than Last Line: It's too late %and there's nothing worse %than %too late OLD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He writes to the editors Last Line: We were both %failed %writers OLD GANG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doesn't know how bad he is in that Last Line: The sound of a %siren OLD HORSEPLAYER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wears the same pants Last Line: He's hooked on an %impossibility OLD JOCKEY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you no longer see their name on the program Last Line: And she was right OLD LOVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comes out of the dugout in the last of the 9th Last Line: That shower is going to feel good OLD POET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would, of course, prefer to be with the fox in the ferns Last Line: Another old poet %going off OLD?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll be 73 in august Last Line: You know what I %mean? ON AND OFF THE ROAD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flying into a strange town, being met at the Last Line: It's the only thing you can do ON BEING 20, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother knocked on my roominghouse door Last Line: What they would. %they did ON BEING RECOGNIZED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young girl found me at the track Last Line: On the famous %writer ON BIOGRAPHIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you're dead Last Line: Long %to do %it %anyhow ON BLACKHAWK STREET: 9. FOR CHARLES BUKOWSKI, by CHARLES BIVINS Poem Source First Line: A marvelous bank Last Line: & flies ON BUMS AND HEROES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ask for no mercy and no miracles Last Line: And death is useless ON SHAVING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miraculous %to grow old Last Line: The mirror on the wall ON SHOOTING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'd like to put one Last Line: Mabel, you %whore ON THE BUM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from city to city Last Line: All the lights %turned %out ON THE CIRCUIT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was up in san francisco Last Line: Going down the hill ON THE CONTINENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm soft. I %dream too. Last Line: Snapshots, and the %finished sonnet ON THE HUSTLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose %one of the worst times was Last Line: The truth, at %last ON THE REBOUND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen an old man around town recently Last Line: I would never see him again ONE FOR OLD SNAGGLE-TOOTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a woman Last Line: Frances, this poem is for you ONE FOR SHERWOOD ANDERSON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was just a Last Line: Know %about. %that's %all ONE FOR THE SHOESHINE MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The balance is preserved by the snails climbing the Last Line: And the hedges will tell you %so ONE MORE GOOD ONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wore a platinum blond wig Last Line: She left her teeth in all %night long ONE OF THESE DAYS SOMEBODY WILL TELL THIS STORY, by BOBBY BYRD Poem Source First Line: How one day %hank chinaski Last Line: Charles bukowski was right ONE OF THOSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Satre was some fellow, oh yes Last Line: Jean paul %thanks %for %everything ONE OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men on second and third ONE TO THE BREASTPLATE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a saying, 'the tough ones always come back.' Last Line: Roadmap as we sip our %diet schlitz ONE-TO-FIVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know honor racing Last Line: Nor anywhere else where %humans dwell ONLY LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's no use, I've got to admit Last Line: Is better then not writing %at all OPEN ALL NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to organ music on the radio Last Line: Touches the keys and %is taken %again ORDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've cleaned this room up Last Line: I can't %come %either ORDERLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New worlds shine in the dust Last Line: To be crazy alone forever ORDINARY POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you've always wanted OTHER ROOM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is always somebody in the other room Last Line: Sometimes there isn't anybody here at all OUR CURIOUS POSITION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saroyan on his deathbed said Last Line: I don't believe %either OUR LAUGHTER IS MUTED BY THEIR AGONY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the child crosses the street as deep as deep sea divers OUR WORLD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange, isn't it Last Line: Ever more %their bloody %pollen OUT OF PLACE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always knew that there was something wrong Last Line: I accepted the situation and %waited OUT OF THE ARMS..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She phoned me from a far away Last Line: One of these days OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After mickey's wife goes to work Last Line: And feeling like a total %asshole OVER DONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had somehow located me again - he was on the OVER-POPULATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wouldn't say it was a particularly low time, it was Last Line: Other people %were doing OWL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an owl tonight Last Line: I may never see an owl %again P.O. BOX 11946, FRESNO, CALIF. 90731, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drove in from the track after losing $50. Last Line: On the way %out P.O. BOX 11946, FRESNO, CALIF. 93776, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drove in from the track after losing $50. PACE IS THE ESSENCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the mailman walked up the hill Last Line: Back watering the %gladiolas PACIFIC TELEPHONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You go for these wenches, she said Last Line: More vicious than any of them PACK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs are at it again; they leap and Last Line: Even though you are one %of them %now PACT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I called up harry and his girlfriend Last Line: To wait for %besides morning PALE PINK PORSCHE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's gotten very fat %since we split a year ago Last Line: To another lost lady in %galveston, %texas PALM LEAVES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At exactly 12:00 midnight Last Line: But I have lived %it through PAPER ON THE FLOOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drawing is poor and I know little of the plot Last Line: And thrown away PARADE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waving of hands, the posturing of the Last Line: There's no answer to %that PARIS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was just like not being there Last Line: A fashion magazine in a %train station PARIS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want to get stiffed? He asked Last Line: Brahms' %2nd %sent %this %one PARKED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in my car Last Line: And dutch van gogh PARTY'S OVER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you've pulled off the tablecloth with PASSING OF A GREAT ONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was the only living writer I met who I truly PASTORAL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening to a piano and a Last Line: It is ever %going to %get PATRIOT OF LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old guy %next door Last Line: Of the darkness %retreat PAYOFF, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was to give a poetry reading Last Line: Have been. But only the two of us %knew it PEACE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the corner table in the Last Line: Flower %in the %night PEOPLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the people: elbows, knees Last Line: What I am here for PEOPLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All people start to Last Line: Say the true %clay %words PERNICIOUS ANEMIA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phillipe's is an old time Last Line: You can see the most beautiful faces %in town PHOTOGRAPHS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They photograph you on your porch Last Line: Looking into and at their eyes and souls %and more PICK - 6, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little old men Last Line: So tired %every night PILE-UP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 3 horse clipped the heels of Last Line: 3 winners in a %single race PISS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember once I was sitting in this hotel Last Line: We were always arguing about %something PLACE DIDN'T LOOK BAD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had hugh thighs Last Line: As she put mozart %on PLACE IN PHILLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing like being young Last Line: Certainly %will be %more %masterpieces PLACE TO GO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be young, foolish, poor and ugly Last Line: Department store,' she called me PLANTS WHICH EASILY WINTER KILLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plants which easily winter kills Last Line: The sawfish does not attack whales PLATE GLASS WINDOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs and angels are not Last Line: All up and %down %inside the %darkness %here PLATONIC, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wanted a platonic afternoon and I said, all right Last Line: And started looking for %mine PLAYER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had 40 win on the 6 horse PLAYERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are only two men I can really Last Line: Bark %night into morning PLAYTIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went to a japanese restaurant with my Last Line: Plenty of time to really %fuck up %I %yawned PLEASANT AFTERNOON IN BED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red summers and black satin Last Line: And it is very %funny PLEASE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Save me from them Last Line: And stretch their legs %through my %space PLEASED TO MEET YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Og my god,' she said, 'jean don carlo!' Last Line: It is like nothing %sitting down PLEASURES OF THE DAMNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Everything wet %everything fine POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow I know, %(I know him well, it's me) Last Line: She called me %selfish. %fuck her POET IN NEW YORK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eating out tonight Last Line: Fairly %fine POETRY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It Last Line: Read %it POETRY CONTEST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send as many poems as you wish, only Last Line: The place where winter %died POETRY READING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at them Last Line: The man answers. %the reading is over POETRY READINGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry readings have to be some of the saddest Last Line: But / these Subject(s): Poetry Readings POETRY READINGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best of auden Last Line: Just as I had suspected %in the %beginning POLISH SAUSAGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know how he does it POOR MIMI, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mimi trochi Last Line: What the trouble was POORLY NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember that night she came over,' Last Line: It's time for popcorn in the dark POST TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the old rich still make it to Last Line: More beautiful than all the world %and it %begins POSTCARD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the man you've never seen who Last Line: But nowhere %a living man POWERS THAT BE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a crowd at this dinner Last Line: I was sitting with talented %shit PRACTICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that depression neighborhood I had two buddies PRACTICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking more and more Last Line: Any number %of times PRAIRIE HOUSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unreasonable lenses refract the Last Line: Robust nipples the gossamer hair PRAYER IN BAD WEATHER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By god, I don't know what to Last Line: Listening to the rain PREPARATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've got to burn Last Line: For a tiny %blinking %moment PRETTY BOY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drank together Last Line: I drank the %cold beer PRETTY GIRL WHO RENTED ROOMS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in new orleans Last Line: And a window %in the room PRICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drinking 15 dollar champagne -- Last Line: And says, sure you can PRIEST AND THE MATADOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They took my man off the street Last Line: Him. The cops took him %in. No %good PROBABLY SO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight %I have 2 spiders clinging to a crack in the wall Last Line: Who lives like this? PROBLEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met for dinner Last Line: We don't have %any friends %at all %sarah %said PROBLEMS ABOUT THE OTHER WOMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had worked my charms on her Last Line: The last time I ever have %to PROBLEMS IN THE CHECKOUT LINE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often in the supermarket checkout line Last Line: Has very little to do %with anything else PRODUCED AND BOTTLED BY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bleakly wandering flat white fields Last Line: That's something rare PROFESSIONALS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Constipated writers %squatting over their machines Last Line: And eager readers who need plenty of new shit. %it's depressing PROFESSORS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting with the professors Last Line: There'll be a %good crowd %they tell me PROMENADE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each night Last Line: The moon when there is a %moon PROMENADE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am taking a walk about 2:30 p.M. Last Line: I hope they fix their %engine PROMISE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see old people on pensions in the Last Line: Gets a taste of honey %then the knife PUKING LADY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were around 14, baldy Last Line: Bedroom %tired of it %all PULL A STRING, A PUPPET MOVES..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each man must realize Last Line: And you'll answer: I don't know, %I don't know PULLED DOWN SHADE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I like about you Last Line: Great %let's play %scrabble PUTREFACTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Of late Last Line: And we can't even / cry Subject(s): Decay; Rot; Decadence PUTREFACTION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of late Subject(s): Decay PUTTING IT TO BED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first poem is the last poem is the Last Line: The last poem %the best for me PUZZLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was driving on the freeway Last Line: The traffic was bad too PUZZLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor is a nice guy but he utterly Last Line: Against what they %are %doing...' QUESTION AND ANSWER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat naked and drunk in a room of summer Last Line: Another %spin QUIET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting tonight QUIET CLEAN GIRLS IN GINGHAM DRESSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All I've ever known are whores, ex-prostitutes Last Line: As the whores keep finding me QUIET IN A QUIET NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I an feel myself getting fat, old and Last Line: There is no more %no less QUOTABLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is an old woman Last Line: They still have a %rather %sturdy %worth RACE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like this Last Line: The way love used to RACETRACK SALUTES YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Military day Last Line: We hope you win %this time RADIO WITH GUTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was on the 2nd floor on coronado street Last Line: While the music played RAGS, BOTTLES, SACKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feelings I get Last Line: Whenever you can %not needing a reason RAIN OR SHINE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vultures at the zoo Last Line: That day, I did RAPE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The free verse poets whispered Last Line: My failure to ravish julia RAPE OF THE HOLY MOTHER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little dark girl with Last Line: Mine and I won't use it yet RE-EVALUATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He told me he had been Last Line: I've always been better at %picking horses %than at %picking%people REAL BREAK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard it said that you Last Line: How about %it %huh RECOGNIZED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at the airport Last Line: To greet those we knew and those %who knew %us RED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naturally, we are all caught in RED PORSCHE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It feels good Last Line: The luck of the fool is %inviolate RED TENNIS SHOES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red hair %real Last Line: Not mad enough %to become %women RELEASE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went to a shrink about his writer's block and the shrink Subject(s): Psychiatry; Writer's Block RELENTLESS AS THE TARANTULA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're not going to let you RENT'S TOO HIGH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are beasts in the salt shaker Last Line: I can't live here much longer REPLACEMENTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green dogs, dinosaur sky, serpent of hope Last Line: Packed with blood and dust REST PERIOD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay in his bed and he was a great Last Line: Vultures seldom are blessed with immorality RESULT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was small but neat and when I visited him Last Line: One of the magnificent things of %our century RETIRED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pork chops, said my father, I love RETREAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well %if you didn't call for an enema Last Line: To %walk out of %here RETREAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time has finished me Last Line: Did she get him too RETURNING TO AN OLD LOVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here the computer is down again for Last Line: Be a lady %tonight REUNION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sprayed in my Last Line: From the %old boy REVOLT IN THE RANKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just spent one-hour-and-a-half Last Line: Machine and nothing happens. %like now RIFT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't live with you anymore' RIGHT NOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The party's over, the rooster is Last Line: Empty of the sound of the %moment RIVERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of hell are mine, they aren't yours Last Line: Maybe %forever %so be %it ROACHES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here were all these males tuning their guitars Last Line: It was full of %ashes ROCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not name this poet although his blood-red and dark Last Line: There are none %left ROLL THE DICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you're going to try, go all the way Last Line: The only good fight %there is ROOM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing changes Last Line: The door is %open ROOM 106, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came to town in the middle of the night Last Line: And just like that I %am %asleep ROSARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a man full of small Last Line: I still thought her / beautiful Subject(s): Fathers; Rosary ROSARY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are who I will hear tonight Last Line: And red grange is dead ROYAL STANDARD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad nights can't be cured by bad poems, you Last Line: And tell you and %it %about all that RUIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you see %the tired plants? Last Line: The hangman swinging in the wind. %now you see SAD POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house next door makes me Last Line: Bodies and little %else SANDRA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the slim tall Last Line: I hope she finds %one SANDWICH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down the street for a submarine Last Line: With my belly hanging out over %my belt SARDINES IN STRIPED DRESSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right, they're playing beethoven again; when I was Last Line: Holding, just now, the luck of us all SATURDAY AFTERNOON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must have been 14 or 15 Last Line: Absolutely nothing else for me to do SAVE THE PIER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You shoulda been at this party Last Line: Exactly. You should have been %there. %sorry SAVE THE TREES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think there's no doubt that if SAVIOR: 1970, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He comes by unexpectedly Last Line: I am my own keeper SCARLET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm glad when they arrive Last Line: I'll take care of it %later SCENE FROM 1940, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew you were a bad-ass,' he said Last Line: Praise was the only thing I couldn't handle SCHOOL DAYS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in bed Last Line: On the way to %nursery school SCHUBERT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long gone along the way, faces Last Line: Long gone along the way SCREENING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrived for the 2nd screening Last Line: Before it would ever get there SEARCHING FOR WHAT?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, nobody has the Last Line: The only possible %victory Subject(s): Men SECRET LAUGHTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lair of the hunted is Last Line: Will not believe a great painting SECRET OF MY ENDURANCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blazing bastard fools Last Line: Circumstance %good %bye SEIZE THE DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foul fellow he was always wiping his nose on his SELF-INVITED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, strap my ass on backwards, phone china Last Line: So I listen and they are %fulfilled SENSITIVE, YOUNG POET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never realized then what a good time I was having Last Line: I cured her of that SEX, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am driving down wilton avenue Last Line: And I am left with %ludwig SEX AND / OR LOVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dreams %I can hit a home run almost Last Line: Think I wasn't %trying %at %all SEXPOT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know, she said, you were at Last Line: Over my right %eye SHAPE OF THE STAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, you know, he started out as a Last Line: Hollywood %what it %is Subject(s): Hollywood, California SHARE THE PAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cops want me to come down and identify Last Line: I haven't seen your %comb SHE COMES FROM SOMEWHERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She comes rushing in Last Line: Then I'm alone %again SHE SAID, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing with all those Last Line: Listen, what's %wrong with you? %you act %depressed SHEEP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In centuries past Last Line: Of the human %spirit SHIT TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half drunk Last Line: Pretending that I knew just as much %as the next %man SHOCK TREATMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fight I saw Last Line: Got up %and left %that time SHOES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you're young SHOOTING THE MOON IN THE EYE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was just a small room, no bathroom Last Line: Souls %and it loved %us SHORT STORY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to hold my social security card Last Line: And the world %looked %terrible SHOW BIZ, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't have it Last Line: Is %one $day SHRINKING ISLAND, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm working on it as SHUT OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were putting them in the gate and I was SIBELIUS AND ETC, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick on a friday night while the discos rock of ass Last Line: What is he doing living with %a whore SICK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bulls are grand as the side of the sun Last Line: And the eventual stench %is the world SILK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silken kneecaps Last Line: All the boys in the neighborhood SILVER MIRROR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pulls a large silver mirror Last Line: The universe is magnificent SIMILARITY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost another 3 page poem to this computer Last Line: Which beats %none at %all %maybe SINGER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This then %is the arena Last Line: In the last of your mind SINGULAR SELF, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are these small cliffs Last Line: Looking for %another place SITTING IN A SANDWICH JOINT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter is most %glorious Last Line: Day, and she's %grinning SITTING WITH THE IBM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another still, hot summer night Last Line: Bushes and I pour more wine, more wine %more wine SKATERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The falcons have come to the city Last Line: As the telephone %rings SLAUGHTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The %cote de nuits-villages louis Last Line: And you are what is %killing me %now SLOW NIGHT (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught out of focus Last Line: To join the good wife %who endures %me SLOW STARTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the time I got good with things Last Line: Don't you almost feel it %now %I do SLUMP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter looked like a young katharine hepburn Last Line: But happy new year to %you all SMIRKING DARK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I buried my father, death stood there Last Line: As he stood %waiting SMOOTH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother stood at the Last Line: Walked back to the %bedroom SNAILS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother stood at the %window Last Line: Then I turned and %walked back to the %bedroom SNAKE EYES?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not a good day Last Line: Thank you for reading %this far SNAKE-EYES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William saroyan Last Line: Just %depending upon %which one %gets to him %first SNAP SNAP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the ladies can get snappish Last Line: Chambers and %nobody's guilty SNAPSHOT (1985), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flailing away at infinity Last Line: They return to their %former %divertissements SNAPSHOTS AT THE TRACK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to the men's crapper Last Line: Anyhow %right %right SNIVELER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're a sniveler, she said Last Line: Switched on the tv SO NOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The words have come and gone Last Line: Oh, I was once unbelievably %young SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it doesn't come bursting out of you Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Patience SOCIAL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue pencil of the wave Last Line: March in to %meet her %friends SOCIAL BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To suffer the fanged indifference of the Last Line: And deserve no %better SOCIETY SHOULD REALIZE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You consult psychiatrists and philosophers Last Line: Loved the night, mexico and %myself SOLDIER, THE WIFE AND THE BUM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a bum in san francisco but once managed Last Line: Walls of our %darkness SOLID STATE MARTY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's almost 80 and they went to Last Line: And then it's time %for me %to go SOME LUCK, SOMEHOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was already an old man Last Line: Of people %who don't know SOME NOTES ON BACH AND HAYDN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is quite something to turn your radio on low Last Line: This good night %is still everywhere SOME OF MY FATHERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked it coming out of that expensive Last Line: Passionate ladies %of the night SOME PEOPLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people never go crazy Last Line: What truly horrible lives %they must lead SOME PICNIC, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which reminds me Last Line: We drank them down SOME SUGGESTIONS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In addition to the envy and the rancor of some of SOMEBODY ELSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had long thin %arms Last Line: Cigarette with %one %hand SOMEDAY I'M GOING TO WRITE A PRIMER FOR CRIPPLED SAINTS ..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the bomb sits out there in the hands of a SOMETHING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soprano sings in my radio Last Line: Dust %and foolishness %survives SON OF SATAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julio came by with his guitar and sang his SOUL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how worried they are about my Last Line: I suppose I %should SOULLESS LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I meet the movie star, he's playing chinaski Last Line: Why don't you do the same? SOULS OF DEAD ANIMALS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the slaughterhouse Last Line: And nobody minded me %at all SOUND OF HUMAN LIVES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange warmth, hot and cold females Last Line: Ass to the ceiling for a change SOUNDLESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is said %that in the courting stage Last Line: With its tongue plucked out forever SPACE CREATURES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are at the track every Last Line: Beings. %I miss them SPANISH GATE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always resented all the years, the hours, the Last Line: What a lucky god damned %thing SPARKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day on the freeway I get into a speed duel with SPIDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then there was the time in Last Line: Angry. She was a good %sort SPILL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O.K. Now, he said, falcon, I want you to pack off Last Line: And better that %falcon, than %me SPLASH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The illusion is that you are simply Last Line: Being the music %roaring %roaring %roaring SPLASHING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dumb Last Line: Slamming %my guts to %pieces STAG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This guy pretended to be a french painter Last Line: And drove on %home STAGES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back then you'd go through stages Last Line: Been stuck there %ever %since STAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was drunk and they Last Line: My critical review %of their %effort STARK DEAD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretentious pap smeared on sanctified Last Line: This dark stinks of us, here STARTING FAST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We each STARTLED INTO LIFE LIKE FIRE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In grievous deity my cat Last Line: Porticoes of my %admiration STATE AND THAT BEGGING MOTHERF .. R, ART, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shostakovitch %I listen to the 7th written durning world war ii STATE OF WORLD AFFAIRS FROM A 3RD FLOOR WINDOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not good, some of the days we have, horrible Last Line: Get the hell out of my face STETHOSCOPE CASE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My doctgor has just come into his office Last Line: I'm far beyond all that STEW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stew at noon, my dear; and look Last Line: We can't make any money %awake STICKS AND STONES ..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saroyan told his wife, 'I've got to STINK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep thinking it will be outside Last Line: Night was just about over STORM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am %hung by a nail Last Line: I've never been mad %at anything STRANGE DAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was one of those hot and tiring days at hollywood Last Line: Long %long %day STRANGE LUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slapped across the face with a Last Line: And strange and strange and %strange and %strange STRANGE MOMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking through this parking Last Line: Normal: it sure felt %more %real STRANGE MORNING OUTSIDE THE BAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had never happened before and one doesn't Last Line: Buy the next %round STRANGE WORKINGS OF THE DARK LIFE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lived in canada and in a famous Last Line: And the padded feet of death STRANGER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came in with %a knife in his Last Line: The night was %really %ruined STRANGEST SIGHT YOU EVER DID SEE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had this room in front on delongpre Last Line: I'm sure they %did STRANGEST THING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sitting in a chair Last Line: And turned up the %flame STREETCARS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Norman and I, both 19, striding the streets of STRIKEOUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is plagiarism, of course, sitting here with Last Line: Henry, why do you write %those terrible words?' STUPID PAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The uselessness of the word is Last Line: Out %our indecent %profession SUCCESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a most difficult job Last Line: My great white belly against %the fan SUCH LUCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were at this table Last Line: We %all looked %away SUCKERFISH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Withrop finds me where I am Last Line: For the first time in %hours SUGGESTION FOR AN ARRANGEMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been painting these last two sundays Last Line: And the paint sticks to my plan like candy SUNDAY BEFORE NOON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He got knifed in broad daylight, came up the street Last Line: Feeling quite like celebrities SUNNY SIDE DOWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing. Sitting in a cafe having breakfast. Nothing. The SUPPOSEDLY FAMOUS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not much to hang onto in this early morning growling SURPRISE TIME AGAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's always a surprise to some Last Line: As you read this %wondering SWAY WITH ME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sway with me, everything sad -- Last Line: Dead or lost %or unforgiving SWEATER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were starving %yet drinking Last Line: Innocently %reading: %2:30 p.M SWEET MUSIC, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It beats love because there aren't any Last Line: Nod and mozart plays SWIFT AND SLOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often while driving down the freeway I feel like Last Line: Without even thinking, without confusion, and still probably can SWIVEL CHAIR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I broke two chairs lately Last Line: Rat tat tat tat %gotcha! Variant Title(s): Swive SWORD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching a tv show Last Line: Each man %alone %forever T.M., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lived in galveston and was into Last Line: Neither of us has written TABBY CAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has on bluejeans and tennis shoes Last Line: Jump %while you can TABLE FOR TWO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not much chance in Last Line: Without %much chance TAKE IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got it down so tight the hinges squeaked Last Line: With big fat balls and %silver hair TAKEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ezra, celine, hamsun, sartre, others Last Line: Before it reached %them TAKING CARE OF THE BIG WHAMMY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I forget which year it was Last Line: And began jamming %letters %again TALK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy walks with his muddy feet across my Last Line: The woman any more TALKING TO MY MAILBOX..., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He arrived, brisk, with briefcase, highly recommended, he TELEPHONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many women I have known have Last Line: A misogynist who %writes these %poems TELEPHONE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will bring you people Last Line: The kind %understanding %soul TERMINOLOGY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The problem that I've found with TERROR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terror is in viewing the human Last Line: Me %through and %through TERRORISTS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming up from the street Last Line: Just another crazy white loser TEXAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's from texas and weighs Last Line: And I say %yes THANK YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some want me to go on writing about whores THANKS FOR THAT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this time Last Line: No stewardess and %no lost luggage THANKS TO THE COMPUTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That I have known the dead and now I'm Last Line: Alone now %alone then %alone THAT RARE GOOD MOMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the gods relent Last Line: And even ducks %sleep THAT'S WHY FUNERALS ARE SO SAD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's got all the tools but he's lazy, has no THE BEAST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beowulf may have killed grendel and Last Line: And all the walls become impossible Subject(s): Beowulf THE BEAUTIFUL LADY EDITOR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a beautiful woman, I used to see photographs of Subject(s): Editors THE COLORED BIRDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average Last Line: 8, 1988 by charles bukowski. THE LAUGHING HEART, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Your life is your life THE LOSER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack london drinking his life away while Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; London, Jack (1876-1916); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE SECRET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, nobody has the Last Line: "the life so dying of Subject(s): Men THE SHAPE OF THE STAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, you know, he started out as a Last Line: What it / is Subject(s): Hollywood, California THE SICKNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If / one night / I write Last Line: It. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE STRONGEST OF THE STRONG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography THE SUICIDE KID, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the worst of bars Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE TRASH MEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they come / these guys Last Line: Find us. Variant Title(s): The End Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal THE WORD (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no legs or eyes Last Line: Getting it / down Subject(s): Language; Writing & Writers; Words; Vocabulary THE WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 YEARS; I.M. CHARLES BUKOWSKI, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I met her at the west end bar. I mounted Last Line: I was a nice guy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE YOUNG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never could read tender is the THEM AND US, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were all out on the front porch Last Line: And helped bill find %the %telephone THERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The centerfielder Last Line: Through the %miraculous %air THERE ARE HECKLERS IN GERMANY TOO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terror finally becomes almost Last Line: Over a cliff of hell and into the %sea THERE'S NO BUSINESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pathetic squirrel drinks johnny walker red Last Line: She's a complete asshole too THEY ALL OF THEM KNOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask the sidewalk painters of paris Last Line: Than a man can bear THEY ARE EVERYWHERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tragedy-sniffers are all Last Line: And %ranting %on THEY ARRIVED IN TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father eating Last Line: And I'll never collect THEY NEED WHAT THEY NEED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of it, there were fellows like Last Line: Walking toward you %with dead %eyes THIS (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self-congratulatory nonsense as the Last Line: You sick %motherfucker THIS (3), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being drunk at the typer beats being with any woman THIS DIRTY, VALIANT GAME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see e.E. Cummings drinking a Last Line: Flowers frozen in %blood %urine %wine THIS DRUNK ON THE NEXT BARSTOOL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's done by living through the women Last Line: This old man %live well together THIS IS A FACT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the company of fools Last Line: God bless us THIS IS FREE, TAKE IT, AND FEEL BETTER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad-natured people are everywhere THIS KIND OF FIRE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think the gods Subject(s): Aging THIS MOMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in a chair on the balcony Last Line: And far %better %I wait THIS PARTICULAR WAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gutted: %sunk like the german navy Last Line: As she now sings her old song to her %new lover THIS POET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This poet he' Last Line: Vomit anyw %here for mon %ey THIS REJOINDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people survive to come up with flat fists full Last Line: Make more %sense THIS THEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the same as before Last Line: I hope that death contains %less than this THOSE GIRLS WE FOLLOWED HOME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worst celebrities often support the most noble Last Line: Or %any night %at all THOSE MARVELOUS LUNCHES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was in grammar school Last Line: Sissies live a hard %life THOSE MORNINGS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I still remember those new orleans rats Last Line: And the whores slept %like %babies THOUGHTS ON BEING 71, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Firsts time my father overheard me listening to Last Line: Before he makes more %such as %I THROUGH THE STREETS OF ANYWHERE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course it is nonsense to try to patch up an Last Line: But not much %for me TIGRESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible arguments. %and, at last, lying peacefully Last Line: She bathes, I hear the splashing of water TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One collapses and surrenders Last Line: With white hands TIME IS MADE TO BE WASTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had just bought some boxer shorts Last Line: And then it vanished under a %bush TIRED IN THE AFTERDUSK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 CHARLES BUKOWSKI, by C. E. CHAFFIN Poem Source First Line: Your shadow follows me %like an oil smear on asphalt Last Line: Thinks he's a poet - %just look at our streets Subject(s): Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994) TO HELL AND BACK IN A BUGGY CARRIAGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kool enough to die but not Last Line: To love me to sleep while I am %waiting TO LEAN BACK INTO IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like in a chair the color of the sun Last Line: Not all of it was good luck TO SERVE AND PROTECT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two policemen on motorcycles Last Line: I got in and drove %off TO THE WHORE WHO TOOK MY POEMS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say we should keep personal remorse from the Last Line: But not so very much %poetry TO WEEP, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweating in the kitchen Last Line: The soprano is dead TOGETHER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, I hollered across the TOKEN DRUNK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was standing on the deck near the rail Last Line: It was just another sunday morning in %marina del rey TONALITIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers march without guns Last Line: I am this fiery snail %crawling home TONIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your poems about the girls will still be around Last Line: Do you know what I mean TOO DARK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No,' she said, 'I know you fucked another woman Last Line: Then I got up and brushed my teeth TOO HOT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am here courtesy of life Last Line: Continue writing this dripping %wet poem %right? %right TOO LATE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About to walk into a supermarket today Last Line: I'm sixty, dear, what the %hell TOO LATE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a slow developer Last Line: Sitting at the table %with TOO MANY BLACKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first wife was from texas and we came back Last Line: And let her %work it %out TOO MUCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dutchman %in a philly bar put Last Line: And too soon dead TORCHED-OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worst was closing the bars at Last Line: Life couldn't get any %better TOTAL MADNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right, I know that you are tired of hearing it Last Line: Remain young %forever %rooms of %glory TOUCH OF STEEL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had the nicest old guy Last Line: But the way I see it %he must have. TOUGH COMPANY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poems like gunslingers Last Line: Son of a bitch TOUGH TIME, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a student of philosophy Last Line: It had been a %crappy %summer TOUGHER THAN CORNED BEEF HASH --, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The motion of the human heart Last Line: And on and on %for a while TOULOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had an accident as a child Last Line: Final and terrible and beautiful whore TRAFFIC REPORT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in los angeles Last Line: I prefer to die by my own %hand TRAFFIC SIGNALS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old folks play a game Last Line: They disgust me TRAFFIC TICKET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked off the job again Last Line: They said I did TRAGEDY OF THE LEAVES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I awakened to dryness, and the ferns were dead Last Line: Because the world has failed us %both TRAGIC MEETING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was more visible and available then TRAIN STATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a young guy in los angeles Last Line: Sucking them off right on the %loading ramps TRANSFORMATION AND DISFIGURATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a scraggly bum most of my Last Line: You and I %we know %better TRAPPED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the winter walking on my Last Line: I am bigger than the mountains TRAPPED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't undress my love Last Line: I only wanted her %to TRASH CAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is great, I just wrote two Last Line: Misbegotten one %also %ha ha ha TRASHCAN LIVES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows hard tonight TREASON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colyngbourne crossed a king with a poem Last Line: And decided the jester too %must die TREE, A ROAD, A TOAD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A table of 7, all %laughing loudly, again and again Last Line: I hope so. %I have to hope so TRENCH WARFARE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick with the flu Last Line: Dylan all the %way TROLLIUS AND TRELLISES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, I may die in the next ten minutes Last Line: And the fire sings %through the %trees TROOPS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: World war ii %I was 21 Last Line: Just kept on %going TROUBLE IN THE NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She awakens me almost every night Last Line: But what does she want? TROUBLE WITH SPAIN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son-of-a-bitch, I don't know why Last Line: You'd probably have caught a juicy %fly by now TRUCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need to walk down a sidewalk Last Line: Other %after everything %else TRUE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of lorca's best lines TRUE CONFESSION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now look benny, he said Last Line: I guess we're both lawyers then, mr. %markovitch TRUE STORY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They found him walking along the freeway Last Line: God, or somebody, %bless %him TRYING TO GET EVEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'd had any number of joints and some Last Line: And she probably %has TRYING TO MAKE IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New jock in from arizona TURNABOUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She drives into the parking lot while Last Line: Mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything %about mercy TV, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to this place to see a movie Last Line: Jesus christ, what a %night TWINS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen Last Line: Waiting also %to die TWINS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, said my friend, I want you to meet Last Line: All right. Yes TWO CRAZIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were the only two whites in the Last Line: And if that ain't crazy %I'd rather %be TWO DRUNKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was trying to write Last Line: You see this poem TWO TOUGHEST APES IN THE SOUTH BAY AREA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At l.A. City college there were two toughs, me and jed Last Line: Here's a thanks %for that drink UNCROWNED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A retired middleweight boxer, hayden stuhlsatz, fought Last Line: Said the county coroner. %an inquest is pending UNDECENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brisk, brisk, brisk Last Line: And the mad %man %is right UNDER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't pick anything up Last Line: It is a victory to scratch %myself UNKIND POEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They go on writing Last Line: Tap tap tap, tap tap, tap tap tap, tap tap UNTIL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just thinking about Last Line: There's work to be done UNUSUAL WOMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met this woman %and she said Last Line: A highly unusual woman UNWRITTEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's been months now: the most Last Line: So I could have %considered it %trivial UP THROUGH THE NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way I can tell it is the christmas Last Line: Bearable and life worth %discarding UP YOUR YELLOW RIVER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman told a man Last Line: Of those gravediggers %could write UPON FIRST READING THE IMMORTAL LITERATURE OF THE WORLD --, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The school children %bang closed Last Line: Boring %as %immortality UPON PHONING AN X-WIFE NOT SEEN FOR 20 YEARS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's difficult to accept Last Line: I am on the next page %the next book UPON SPLITTING WITH THE LAST WOMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fine then, thunderclaps at midnight, death in the Last Line: And I can't even %shine %my shoes VALENTINE GIFT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is hard to find a man Last Line: The sound of cesar vellejo's %steadfast tread imponderable VAMPIRES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am hungover and in bed and the doorbell rings Last Line: The way they do VAN GOGH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain vanilla ladies strutting Last Line: It never arrived VEGAS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What bargains we have made Last Line: From us %but %our lives VICTORY!, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are in a terrible hurry to die Last Line: Don't wanta think %no more VIEW FROM THE SCREEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cross the room Last Line: As I %have lived VIEWS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend says, how can you write so many poems Last Line: And the subject is closed VIOLIN PLAYER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was in the upper grandstand Last Line: I was getting into evening VIRGINS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in this little mexican bar in san pedro Last Line: Now there's room for whiskey VISITATION, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here we go now Last Line: I come back here and %sit at this %keyboard. %to hell with this %poem VOICE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a table outside Last Line: Enough (had been) %said VOICE OF CHINASKI, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Modern composers re writing pieces using Last Line: And the nuns and the monks have %god VOICE OUT OF THE VOID, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She phoned me about it from a far away Last Line: I walked across the room and %snapped on the %tv VOICES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burned senseless by other people's constant depression Last Line: And even in death %it can be there VOUCHSAFEMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day at the track Last Line: You have become %accustomed %to WAITING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh my god %what have I %done? %won't %she %ever %shut up? WALKING WITH THE DEAD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And talking with the dead and driving the freeways Last Line: Throw it out %start over again WALL CLOCK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many years ago %in this one place where I worked Last Line: Many more important things WALLS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you've hit the bars a while Last Line: Within dark and %peeling walls WANDERING IN THE CAGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languid conjecture during hours of moil, trapped in the shadows Last Line: I am exactly what I am supposed to %be WAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black and the yellow met Last Line: On the car radio WAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War, war, war Last Line: Breathing like this WARM ASSES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This friday night %the mexican girls at the catholic carnival Last Line: Mournful mexican asses WARM LIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone Last Line: All that there %is %to know WARNING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon your darkened red mouth wild birds scream Last Line: The last one here WASHRAG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving for the track in the morning Last Line: I blend into %time WASTED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too often the people complain that they have Last Line: I want to be free of that WATCHING CHARLES BUKOWSKI LOOK-A-LIKE W/AUTISTIC BOY ..............., by M. L. LIEBLER Poem Source First Line: I hate republicans! %they never look like bukowski Last Line: With bubblegum patches %on worn, old, recapped tires WAVING AND WAVING GOODBYE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I paid this one's fare all the way from houston Last Line: But I'm not sure WAX JOB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, he said, sitting on the steps Last Line: There was no way I could make it with %him WAY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Murdered in the alleys of the land Last Line: And I write poems for them WAY IT IS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost everybody here is on Last Line: Lovely %little %neighborhood WAY IT IS NOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you %I've lived with some gorgeous women Last Line: Being often enough %alone WAY IT WORKS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it the greenhouse effect or whatever Last Line: The world might %never see %again WE BOTH KNEW HIM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew him before I knew you, she said Last Line: Of beer and, mister death %I left WE CAN'T, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can't win %it Last Line: And the human %faces %watching WE EVOLVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The various women I have lived with have loved Last Line: Nearly almost always faithful WE MUST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know that some night Last Line: All sadness, grinning %into flow WE'LL TAKE THEM, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those lobsters Last Line: Flowers of the sea WE'RE ALL GONNA MAKE IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My black buddy rice %I got him hooked Last Line: Either one of us. %'scooby doobie do...' WE'VE GOT TO COMMUNICATE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are always proclaiming that Last Line: And to proclaim %proclaim %proclaim WEARING THE COLLAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live with a lady and four cats WEATHER IS HOT ON THE BACK OF MY WATCH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weather is hot on the back of my watch Last Line: It was 4:35 p.M WEATHER REPORT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose it's raining in some spanish town Last Line: That's the best way WEATHER'S BEEN FAIR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now looking out toward town Last Line: That's good enough for me WELCOME DARKNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when everything seems at WET NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rag. %she sat there, glooming Last Line: I don't know about the %woman WHAT A WRITER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got to stop battling these wild speed jocks on the freeway as WHAT CAN YOU DO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is always somebody to chop wood Last Line: The tavern with dirty %fingernails WHAT DO THEY WANT?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are times when those eyes inside your Last Line: What do they want? WHAT THEY WANT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vallejo writing about Last Line: Dreary %admirers of %carnivals WHAT WE NEED, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was an old beatnik poet Last Line: Went on talking in %the other room WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBORS THINK, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that was the question asked most of me Last Line: What the %neighbors thought WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yes huxley motorcaded through southern europe Last Line: Looking up at the dark ceiling WHAT'S THE USE OF A TITLE?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They don't make it Last Line: As the old men play checkers in the sun %in the park WHAT?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepy now Last Line: Christmas morning WHEN I THINK OF MYSELF DEAD, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of automobiles parked in a Last Line: My clean and dirty underwear %away WHEN THE VIOLETS ROAR AT THE SUN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They've got us in the cage Last Line: At what they've done to us WHERE TO PUT IT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't blame me if your car breaks down on the freeway Last Line: But don't blame yourself WHISTLER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said, all of a sudden Last Line: No wonder we sleep %away the %nights WHITE DOG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a walk on hollywood boulevard Last Line: I let it walk away WHO IN HELL IS TOM JONES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was shacked with a Last Line: Pulling up my shorts %I tried to explain WHOREHOUSE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first experience in a whorehouse WIDE AND MOVING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 98 degrees and I am standing in the center Last Line: Peck in the dirt outside WILD, FRESH WIND BLOWING...., by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just a slow day moving into a slow night Last Line: It'll be the same damn thing WINDY NIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They smile and bring the food Last Line: Szechwan shrimp with chinese %peas %again WINE OF FOREVER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Re-reading some of fante's WINNER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big sloppy wounded dog Last Line: Snow fell upon the %sierra madre WINTER: 44TH YEAR, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sad Last Line: Leave the message WISE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were wise Last Line: Alone %too long! WITHIN MY OWN MADNESS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spaniards had it right and the greeks had it Last Line: The pigeon speaks my %name WOMAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This head like a saucer Last Line: Heavy with everything %except my love WOMAN FROM GERMANY, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every 3 or 4 nights the phone rings Last Line: I want to know her name WOMAN IN ORANGE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am frightened and %hung over crossing rowena avenue Last Line: Frightened and hung over %all over %again WOMAN IN THE SUPERMARKET, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her shoes themselves Last Line: She walks away WOMEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle ben was interested in the ladies Last Line: And the remembrance %of %her laughter WONDROUS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right, lay on the rain Last Line: The divine %broth WORD (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no legs or eyes Last Line: Getting it down %getting it %down Subject(s): Language WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They laugh continually %even when Last Line: Humor %to the %end WORKING, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, those days when I WORKING IT OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this steamy a.M. Hades claps its herpes hands and WORKING OUT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Van gogh cut off his ear WORLD WAR ONE MOVIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were best, the aviators drank at the bar Last Line: While %our fathers watched us %and %yawned WORST AND THE BEST, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hospitals and jails Last Line: That's the best for me WRITER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of the things I endured trying to be a Last Line: And start %writing %again WRITERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often it is the only Last Line: That's %what it %is WRITING IS A STATE OF TRANCE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks in while Last Line: Bad luck:I do it %very well X-CON, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain in back, feel bloated, should cut my Last Line: Who could have %ever guessed X-IDOL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never watch tv so I don't know Last Line: The mountains call us home X-PUG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hooked to the body hard Last Line: But you'll have yor important tank of gas %and drive off YANKEE DOODLE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was young Last Line: Fired but that was the one time %I felt it YAWN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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?, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The court was going to hell Last Line: He moved %further west YELLOW CAB, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mexican dancer shook her fans at Last Line: Destiny. Winner take barcelona. Next %bar YELLOW PENCIL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting in the stands with a Last Line: I wink and %slide %the money %toward %him YES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter who I'm with Last Line: The hollywood hills Variant Title(s): Yes, I A YES SIRREE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All our neighbors think that Last Line: And we're all %on %target YES YES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god created love he didn't help most Last Line: He came all over his blessed universe YOU, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came up behind me Last Line: Delahoussaye was due YOU CAN'T TELL A TURKEY BY ITS FEATHERS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son, my father said, if you only had some YOU DO IT WHILE YOU'RE KILLING FLIES, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bach, I said, he had 20 children Last Line: When do you do your writing? YOU DON'T KNOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a starving writer I used to read the major writers YOU KNOW AND I KNOW AND THEE KNOW, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That as the yellow shade rips Last Line: We will defeat death YOUNG, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Starving there, sitting around the bars Last Line: Do %but only %know YOUNG LOVE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits all day at the bus stop Last Line: The bench still sits there on the corner %advertising something YOUNG MEN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again and again %young men write me Last Line: And sleep forever YOUNG POETS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young comfortable poets send their work to Last Line: Fight, the only %fight YRS., ANICA, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She used to write me little notes Last Line: Woman %I have ever met ZERO (1), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting here watching the second hand on the timex go ZERO (3), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The consensus is that it's a difficult time Last Line: On a hot %july night ZOO, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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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