"8 count" from Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 by Charles Bukowski. Copyright © 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1974 by Charles Bukowski. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.



Source: Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1993)