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Charles Bukowski's Poetry, by first line

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  • Gas
    my grandmother had a serious gas
    problem.
    46 lines, 5 comments
  • Show Biz
    I can't have it
    and you can't have it
    64 lines, 3 comments
  • Cut While Shaving
    It's never quite right, he said, the way people look,
    the way the music sounds, the way the words are
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • 40,000
    at the track today,
    Father's Day,
    95 lines, 11 comments
  • 8 Count
    from my bed
    I watch
    23 lines, 19 comments
  • A Challenge To The Dark
    shot in the eye
    shot in the brain
    13 lines, 18 comments
  • A Following
    the phone rang at 1:30 a.m.
    and it was a man from Denver:
    36 lines, 12 comments
  • A Radio With Guts
    it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street
    I used to get drunk
    32 lines, 12 comments
  • An Almost Made Up Poem
    I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
    blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
    39 lines, 2 comments
  • And The Moon And The Stars And The World
    Long walks at night--
    that's what good for the soul:
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Are You Drinking?
    washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook
    out again
    47 lines
  • As The Sparrow
    To give life you must take life,
    and as our grief falls flat and hollow
    11 lines, 2 comments
  • Be Kind
    we are always asked
    to understand the other person's
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • Big Night On The Town
    drunk on the dark streets of some city,
    it's night, you're lost, where's your
    39 lines
  • Cause And Effect
    the best often die by their own hand
    just to get away,
    9 lines, 3 comments
  • Confession
    waiting for death
    like a cat
    39 lines
  • Consummation Of Grief
    I even hear the mountains
    the way they laugh
    25 lines, 4 comments
  • Cows In Art Class
    good weather
    is like
    83 lines, 1 comment
  • Curtain
    the final curtain on one of the longest running
    musicals ever, some people claim to have
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Death Wants More Death
    death wants more death, and its webs are full:
    I remember my father's garage, how child-like
    64 lines, 1 comment
  • Decline
    naked along the side of the house,
    8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil
    23 lines
  • Eat Your Heart Out
    I've come by, she says, to tell you
    that this is it. I'm not kidding, it's
    38 lines
  • Finish
    We are like roses that have never bothered to
    bloom when we should have bloomed and
    5 lines
  • Flophouse
    you haven't lived
    until you've been in a
    99 lines, 1 comment
  • For Jane
    225 days under grass
    and you know more than I.
    18 lines, 3 comments
  • Jane Icin (For Jane - In Turkish)
    cimen altinda gecen 225 gunden sonra benden daha cok sey biliyor olmalisin.
    kanini emip bitireli epey oldu, artik bir sepetteki kuru bir cubuksun.
    9 lines
  • Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window
    Sunday, I am eating a
    grapefruit, church is over at the Russian
    29 lines, 1 comment
  • Here I Am ...
    drunk again at 3 a.m. at the end of my 2nd bottle
    of wine, I have typed from a dozen to 15 pages of
    35 lines
  • His Wife, The Painter
    There are sketches on the walls of men and women and ducks,
    and outside a large green bus swerves through traffic like
    46 lines, 1 comment
  • Hot
    she was hot, she was so hot
    I didn't want anybody else to have her,
    59 lines, 1 comment
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