Charles Bukowski's Poetry, by popularity

• Interview By A Guggenheim Recipient

  this South American up here on a Gugg
  walked in with his whore

  72 lines
• Trollius And trellises

  of course, I may die in the next ten minutes
  and I’m ready for that

  152 lines
• X-Pug

  he hooked to the body hard
  took it well

  27 lines
• The Weather Is Hot On The Back Of My Watch

  the weather is hot on the back of my watch
  which is down at Finkelstein’s

  58 lines, 1 comment
• Wax Job

  man, he said, sitting on the steps
  your car sure needs a wash and wax job

  96 lines
• Vegas

  there was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint
  but the shells came down

  60 lines
• The Japanese Wife

  O lord, he said, Japanese women,
  real women, they have not forgotten,

  39 lines
• The Trash Men

  here they come
  these guys

  48 lines
• Trouble With Spain

  I got in the shower
  and burned my balls

  47 lines, 1 comment
• I Am Visited By An Editor And A Poet

  I had just won $115 from the headshakers and
  was naked upon my bed

  43 lines
• I Wanted To Overthrow The Government But All I Brought Down Was Somebody's Wife

  30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and one fox
  and look here, they write,

  53 lines
• I Can't Stay In The Same Room With That Woman For Five Minutes

  I went over the other day
  to pick up my daughter.

  60 lines
• Hello, Willie Shoemaker

  the Chinaman said don’t take the hardware
  and gave me a steak I couldn’t cut (except the fat)

  51 lines, 1 comment
• About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter

  he lives in a house with a swimming pool
  and says the job is

  106 lines, 1 comment
• The German Hotel

  the German hotel was very strange and expensive and had
  double doors to the rooms, very thick doors, and it over-

  31 lines, 2 comments
• Small Conversation In The Afternoon With John Fante

  he said, "I was working in Hollywood when Faulkner was
  working in Hollywood and he was

  16 lines
• The Sun Wields Mercy

  and the sun weilds mercy
  but like a jet torch carried to high,

  87 lines, 2 comments
• The Icecream People

  the lady has me temporarily off the bottle
  and now the pecker stands up

  46 lines, 2 comments
• A 340 Dollar Horse And A Hundred Dollar Whore

  don’t ever get the idea I am a poet; you can see me
  at the racetrack any day half drunk

  56 lines, 1 comment
• My Friend, The Parking Lot Attendant

  —he's a dandy
  —small moustache

  50 lines
• One Thirty-Six A.M.

  I laugh sometimes when I think about
  Céline at a typewriter

  53 lines, 1 comment
• Magical Mystery Tour

  I am in this low-slung sports car
  painted a deep, rich yellow

  49 lines, 1 comment
• The Blackbirds Are Rough Today

  lonely as a dry and used orchard
  spread over the earth

  59 lines
• The Retreat

  this time has finished me.
  I feel like the German troops

  28 lines
• The Poetry Reading

  at high noon
  at a small college near the beach

  41 lines
• Whats The Use Of A Title?

  They dont make it
  the beautiful die in flame-

  33 lines, 1 comment
• girls coming home in their cars

  the girls are coming home in their cars
  and I sit by the window and

  39 lines, 1 comment
• What Can We Do?

  at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
  some understanding and, at times, acts of

  31 lines
• Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do

  I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
  the book once radical-communist

  30 lines, 2 comments
• Rain Or Shine

  the vultures at the zoo
  (all three of the)

  22 lines, 2 comments

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