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Charles Bukowski's Poetry, by title

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  • 16-bit Intel 8088 chip
    with an Apple Macintosh
    you can't run Radio Shack programs
    25 lines, 21 comments
  • 2 Flies
    The flies are angry bits of life;
    why are they so angry?
    91 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 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
  • 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 Man
    George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His
    dinner dishes were undone, his breakfast dishe
    129 lines, 5 comments
  • A Radio With Guts
    it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street
    I used to get drunk
    32 lines, 12 comments
  • A Smile To Remember
    we had goldfish and they circled around and around
    in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
    he lives in a house with a swimming pool
    and says the job is
    106 lines, 1 comment
  • Alone With Everybody
    the flesh covers the bone
    and they put a mind
    33 lines, 2 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
  • Another Day
    having the low down blues and going
    into a restraunt to eat.
    63 lines, 1 comment
  • Are You Drinking?
    washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook
    out again
    47 lines
  • As The Poems Go
    as the poems go into the thousands you
    realize that you've created very
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • As The Sparrow
    To give life you must take life,
    and as our grief falls flat and hollow
    11 lines, 2 comments
  • Back To The Machine Gun
    I awaken about noon and go out to get the mail
    in my old torn bathrobe.
    30 lines, 3 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
  • Bluebird
    there's a bluebird in my heart that
    wants to get out
    46 lines, 13 comments
  • Carson McCullers
    she died of alcoholism
    wrapped in a blanket
    22 lines, 2 comments
  • Cause And Effect
    the best often die by their own hand
    just to get away,
    9 lines, 3 comments
  • Close To Greatness
    at one stage in my life
    I met a man who claimed to have
    54 lines
  • 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
  • Crucifix In A Deathhand
    yes, they begin out in a willow, I think
    the starch mountains begin out in the willow
    60 lines, 3 comments
  • Curtain
    the final curtain on one of the longest running
    musicals ever, some people claim to have
    18 lines, 2 comments
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