Charles Bukowski manuscripts

Poem and story manuscripts

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1948

 A Kind, Understanding Face



1957

 A DOLLAR FOR CARL LARSEN



1959

 CAUGHT AGAIN AT SOME IMPOSSIBLE PASS



1962

 The Damnation of Recognition

 THE DEATH OF A BEE IN THE GRASS ALONG MARIPOSA AVENUE:

 THE DAYS RUN AWAY LIKE WILD HORSES OVER THE HILLS

 TO JANE COONEY BAKER, DIED 1-22-62:



1963

 9-23-63



1964

 TO THE ACADEMIANS, AND THOSE FIRST BOX FRONT, OPERA:



1965

 HOW LONG DOES LOVE STAY GREEN? (as long as the money lasts)



1966

 DUST SUDS DUST DISERATJACJBKII? DISERTATION....

 REST YOU MERRY GENTLEMEN AND REST YOU MERRY WHORES AND LET THE LAMPLIGHTS LIGHT--

 the dancer



1968

 THE DROWNING OF THE ANTS

 toy christ

 get the nose



1969

 ALL THE LOVE OF ME GOES OUT TO HER (for A.M.)

 beef tongue (for J.T.)



1970

 BABY NEEDS A NEW CASTLE IN SWITZERLAND

 graditude

 looking for Jack Michelene

 Ice

 Poem to Yevtushenko:

 ROLLED AGAIN

 that liberating movement

 society should realize...

 BEER AND CIGARS (via telephone)

 the girl outside the supermarket

 to kiss the worms goodnight

 1926 Dodge, Tijuana

 THE PALMLEAVES OF CALIFORNIA

 rat poison

 Only the Truly Lost

 the scene

 NOW THE PROFESSORS...

 T.H.I.A.L.H.

 poem for an x-bank clerk

 EARLY MORNING BEER AND NOT MUCH ELSE:

 the heart's riot

 TO A GIRL IN MARCH WIND WITH NYLON PURE WONDERMENT OF THIGH CALVE AND KNEE:

 style

 DOOM LIKE THOSE LARGE RED LIGHTS YOU SUDDENLY SEE IN THE OVERHEAD MIRROR...

 LIFEDANCE

 ?

 horse from hell



1971

 a need for glue

 DOWN ON THE ROW

 that one

 old age

 Poem for an Errand Boy in the Year 1941

 the game-players

 When the violets roar at the sun they'll set us free

 Venice, Calif.

 I met this woman

 crowds

 WORK-FUCK PROBLEMS

 MY LITERARY FLY

 Song for this softly-sweeping sorrow...

 the chicken

 a very dramatic man



1972

 A WELL-KNOWN POET AND MYSELF

 the creation of the morning line

 the bells

 the end

 tonight

 [untitled]

 on the sidewalks and in the sun

 the gigolo

 back ups

 moons of honey drown the lark hahaha

 Crime and Punishment

 the ordinary cafe of the world

 crickets

 wide and revolving

 artistic selfishness, yes, I have it--

 a cop-out to a possible immortality:

 the triangle

 the angel who pushed his wheelchair

 there's people in places where snow lives

 BORN TO LOSE

 this drunk

 poor Trochi

 round trip (for T.H.)

 DAYLIGHT SAVING

 girls coming home in their cars

 fast track

 yes, yes

 200 yards from the surf

 a great man speaks of great men

 a critic

 Robinson Jeffers and Love

 I Can't See Anything

 my hump-backed laughing soul

 the reason:

 piss



1973

 woman in the supermarket

 demise

 DRUNK AND LISTENING TO SOME ENGLISH MARCHES ON THE RADIO WHILE FAR AWAY FROM YOU:

 THE ARCADE ROOM

 panties

 something about a cat

 it will come on padded feet carrying roses, wine and the yellow pages in its mouth:

 no bra, no panties...

 200 years

 she lost weight

 Vegetables

 the copulation blues

 the lambs of laughter

 big grey balloon things, heavy

 my comrades

 overtime

 the police helicopter

 hooked

 did you ever think about that?



1974

 2,294

 the boy in red for a 20

 a plausible finish

 a fair evening

 an afternoon in mid-February 1974

 10:45 a.m.

 dig me a ditch

 WHILE SITTING IN A BAR ON SUNSET BOULEVARD

 the midnight dip

 rubber

 advice

 all you need

 mice

 one hundred dollars

 a confession

 d.n.f.

 extant

 help wanted

 to weep in her hair

 insomnia

 teeth

 the bells of the condom

 mother

 it comes from somewhere

 no Cagney, me

 where are you?

 how good sleep is before having to walk down any street--

 2 horsecollars

 the sun itself, I guess, is the only thing that doesn't need the love of luck--

 the first love

 The Fulfillment

 August

 love

 rosary for a once tenderness

 the mad poet

 let's be original

 like a movie

 A LOVE POEM

 The Apprentices

 free

 guru

 A Song to the Glorious Lonely

 my ol' drinking buddies...

 cloud 9

 Pizza

 pizza

 an old fan

 FLASHING WHITE TEETH

 butterflies

 BLINKS A LITTLE SPOT OF SENSELESS YELLOW IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL

 Hitler's mama

 I meet a vegetarian

 feed time

 a poem for the swingers, a poem for the playgirls of the universe:



1975

 song of the flies

 my groupie

 the hollywood hustle

 whiskey sour

 the pact

 bet too early in the 9th

 finger

 I'll send you a postcard

 drooling madness at st. liz:

 blood

 over a beer

 46 and 9/10's

 lovlie

 in all fairness

 in this place now

 tables

 the famous man

 sometimes even putting a nickle

 haul ass wonder woman

 thoughts on an evening when grey walls breathe and huff

 the knife waltz

 you back in the ninth row, let me tell you something

 look

 broken ass like a cherry seed down the throat

 rip-tide

 Kraznick

 the lady poetess with long blond hair and long silver gown, standing tall and explaining to her audience how the muse CAME

 the lady's man

 constitutional rights

 A NOTE UPON A WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR WITH TINY HAIRS UNDER HIS CHIN

 PRIMAL SCREAM

 the great film director

 the 2nd. novel

 the 2nd. novel

 my lucky friend

 after the reading

 those flashes

 bright spots of light or serpents

 I watch these thin-hoofed beasts

 Hawley's leaving town

 against the window panes

 One for the Jag

 airplane spin

 to the soul-seekers

 visitor

 a lovely couple

 the edge

 the fathead

 beer

 JONES

 the meaning

 full moon

 piranhas

 one for R.O.

 out on the branch

 the big score

 the famous poet

 garter belt

 my father and the bum

 the genius

 half a goldfish

 chauv poem

 the joke

 the anarchists

 cockroach

 thoughts from a stone bench in Venice

 Ezra's pretty tough

 she caught it in the air

 mean and stingy

 the little girls

 entertainment

 IT'S ALL A MATTER OF ENTERTAINMENT

 the good guy

 little tigers everywhere

 those flashes

 a goodbye

 3 pairs of panties

 o.d.

 after the reading

 the red pigeon

 I'm getting back to where I was

 murder

 the silver mirror (for Georgia K.)

 figs

 the hallelujah chorus



1976

 January 1976

 traffic signals

 white like snow

 the tabby cat

 communion

 darling

 skin coloring

 social

 life off hollywood and western

 a touch of steel

 the death kiss

 shit sometimes it gets so lonely that I can't even commit suicide

 trapped

 for me

 her porsche is a pale pink

 beds, toilets, you and me--

 the poem of the empty bed

 be alone

 the fortune teller

 ummmm

 the death-trend

 huge ear rings

 bedpans

 time

 weep

 tonight

 war, and that particular bayonet

 stravinsky on a saturday night at 7:18 p.m.

 for linda

 poet and poetess...

 she wrote me

 bathtub

 Carlton Way off of Western

 goodbye, goodbye clipped wing bluebird

 Pacific Telephone

 hunchback

 an unkind poem



1977

 dog

 two men at the track

 note for my wall

 note left on the dresser by a ladyfriend

 a lazy afternoon

 professional counseling

 best bet

 uggh...

 how ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?

 a matter of size

 a good show

 a note upon starvation

 I do it while thinking about things

 a note upon waste

 the beach boys

 these same walls

 respite

 the pretty girl who rented rooms

 a most serious fellow

 she's free and she's wild

 the firing of the canons

 downtown

 sam the mailman

 the ladies who rip men apart

 a shooting

 the old quarterback

 passport

 an old jockey

 yes

 trainer's instructions

 smashed

 some notes on the word and the way

 love

 it's not exactly the sun

 o, the literary life!

 it's strange

 tongue-cut

 we're all so wanted

 silk

 shopping list

 edith sent us

 I been workin' on the railroad just to pass the time away

 plate glass window

 11:49 p.m. discussion

 and my mother had a nice umbrella

 unleaded

 the whores, the people at taco stands, the bus drivers, the cops, the killers, the janitors, the highschool teachers, the priests and the garbagemen...

 ow

 there's one in every bar

 the finish of Moby Dick

 this is an unhappy poem for your aunt Mary

 Venice, California, November 1977

 Scarlet

 hotel Felix

 overt population

 I drove her to the food stamp place and I had a hamburger while I waited and after a while we walked around and then

 a fact

 2nd. street, near Hollister, in Santa Monica

 panasonic

 the deathly bravo

 he uses unwaxed dental floss

 high-roller

 job #36

 legs



1978

 EVEN CHATTERTON TOOK RAT POISON AND LEFT US AT PEACE

 victory

 one thirty six a.m.

 hot dog

 one thirty six a.m.

 TRAFFIC AND SAFE DRIVING RULES

 hooked in H

 winter meeting

 Sibelius and etc.

 Hollywood Ranch Market

 the big weight-lifting feat

 have a nice day

 women at my dresser mirror

 combat primer

 the way

 coming and going

 rape

 anonymity

 jilted

 time off

 my buddy

 craft

 a member of the jury

 so I got out the AE-1

 there was always the danger of men who originally wrote things down well of becoming professional writers--

 5000 dollars

 little magazines and poetry chapbooks

 Good Friday

 my instructor

 a big one

 I've looked everywhere for the can opener

 the E was all right

 the playboy of the Western world leaves the field to those who desire it--

 death of the toteboards, Hollywood Park, April 21, 1978

 the yards

 where's it at?

 the end of a short love affair

 chilled

 Igloo

 those

 crazy

 heart-ache

 racetrack

 you can't make a lion out of a butterfly

 I.U.(C).D.

 travertine

 funny man

 trouble in the ghetto

 action down on the corner

 last try

 the girls are gone

 Academy Award

 mosquito

 4 Christs

 a great place

 telephone

 mouth

 legs

 N.Y. Times

 tank jobs

 sad letters from up North

 action...

 talk

 the pros

 gift

 ...a big Thursday night at Hollywood and Western...::

 the golden god

 have a nice day

 pretty boy

 the letters of John Steinbeck

 water the plants

 he used to be

 clown poem

 social

 1984

 De Luxe

 dead again

 hop, skip and jump

 chill

 slump

 interview

 the immortals

 just a touch of mox

 reality



1979

 off the board

 Shubert

 I don't need a Cleopatra

 he likes to be alone

 within my own madness...

 HELL

 eating the father

 horse

 my style

 thrill time

 the old pinch hitter

 nice and brown

 the German hotel

 the Lady in Red

 bad day

 the alter boy

 burning bright

 the alien

 vision

 a place to relax

 movie

 the 9 horse

 the piano player

 what have I seen?

 the difficulty

 of course

 Hemingway

 a place to go

 one for the gang

 I don't need a Cleopatra

 my father wanted me to be a mechanical draftsman

 success

 my father wanted me to be a mechanical draftsman but

 I don't need a Cleopatra

 my father wanted me to be a mechanical draftsman but

 flight time

 the answer

 the fix

 the new neighborhood

 a reader

 good show

 the gamblers

 me and Pound's girlfriend

 parts dept.

 trouble

 novels

 the x-con

 soundless

 Bruckner

 the drunk with the little legs

 your move

 the other room

 the secret of my endurance

 the other room

 the girls

 the secret of my endurance

 the secret of my endurance

 locks

 uncrowned

 reject

 wall clock

 pleased to meet you

 the parts dept.

 THE PRINCESS TINA

 guava tree

 tough cob

 THE PAYOFF

 the drowning of the id

 competition

 Manx

 token drunk

 with a flagpole over the San Pedro Harbor

 jam

 competition



1980

 do you use a notebook?

 do you use a notebook?

 slow night

 I can't stop

 the liberated woman and the liberated air

 the new woman

 the liberated woman and the liberated air

 the liberated woman and the liberated air

 the new woman

 notes upon a hot streak

 comrade

 if you don't know where it's at stay where you are

 a Saturday afternoon

 ah

 lazing in San Pedro

 swinging from the dumb hook

 the temporal ease....

 A Fine Night

 the game

 helping friends

 4 cops

 ladies talking on the telephone

 American Literature II

 dog fight

 don't save me

 you're not going to believe this

 pop

 dear friends

 quits

 unemployed and shacking

 quits

 quits

 heads without faces, seen in all the places

 dead dog

 dead dog

 heads without faces, seen in all the places

 heads without faces, seen in all the places

 horses don't bet on people and neither do I...

 only the dragging of time like a dry turd being pulled by a string...

 unloading the goods

 1810*1856

 unloading the goods

 let nothing ever happen

 the poetry game

 the poetry game

 5.90 per pound

 an unliterary afternoon

 let nothing ever happen

 the poetry game

 drink and wait

 a horror poem

 counter

 it sucks

 be angry at San Pedro

 lunch

 merry, merry

 the guitar player

 be angry at San Pedro

 lunch

 merry, merry

 all that like that

 merry, merry

 as much as I hate to use this word...

 the miracle man

 in my day we used to call it pussy-whipped

 lunch



1981

 heavy like dogs with cement shoes walking my skull

 talking to the barkeep

 talking to the barkeep

 forget your writing class, get on your writing ass

 good pay

 nothing

 genius

 nothing

 dim love down low

 heavy like dogs with cement shoes walking my skull

 it was night a little while ago

 kissing me away

 tv is getting better

 Harbor Freeway South

 dirty poem

 Harbor Freeway South

 model

 the night I broke away from Hemingway

 the old soul-suck life

 my god

 listening to the radio at 1:35 a.m.

 come back

 I never bring my wife

 click, click...

 click, click...

 this habit

 bearclaw morning

 room service

 room service

 my Mexican buddy

 bearclaw morning

 WRONG WAY

 grip the light

 the machinary of loss

 the old anarchist

 the old anarchist

 the column

 poor night

 don't worry about dying

 the column

 pain like an old black and white snapshot

 poor night

 back to the machinegun

 Carson McCullers

 pick up

 sloppy day

 the last generation

 the green cadillac

 knowing all along that you're not the only one to think like this

 the sadness in the air

 Ma Barker would have loved me

 and i still don't vote

 pain like an old black and white snapshot

 jung cats

 Ma Barker would have loved me

 the sadness in the air

 no man is an island

 kitchen floor poem

 my 3 friends

 about a correspondence

 no man is an island

 a close call while shopping

 purple

 bob

 how was your childhood?

 Kenyon review after the sandstorm

 EMERGENCY

 garden talk

 Jane and Droll

 an importation

 writing is very much a state of trance

 yours

 renewal

 jack-knife

 writing is a state of trance

 the girls

 yours

 renewal

 Two Ton

 windy night

 an answer to an eleventh grade student in Philadelphia:



1982

 letter to a friend with a domestic problem

 justice

 a mention of some lucky pay-offs

 Brown

 love

 the train station

 fooling Marie

 slow night

 the beautiful rush

 making it

 words for you

 cap

 the beautiful rush

 agnostic

 men without women, per Hemingway

 good morning, how are you?

 405 South

 Gothic and etc.

 hands

 I am chastised

 the factory crew of Southeast L.A.

 men without women

 the eternal players

 the main course

 men without women

 no eulogy

 sardines in striped dresses

 the main course

 gallery

 the main course

 LIFE, DEATH, LOVE, ART

 I might get traded

 she said

 a statement upon the journey

 LIFE, DEATH, LOVE, ART

 no eulogy

 clones

 no eulogy

 regrets of a sort

 darlings of the word

 the new revolution

 the media

 practice

 my doctor

 one out

 one out

 the media

 it only gets pleasant when you don't think too much

 my doctor

 the lucky ones

 the girls from nowhere

 the lucky ones

 practice

 the girls from nowhere

 the faithful wife

 dead dog

 short story form

 dead dog

 promenade

 short story form

 the suicide

 a lady with some French wine

 a poem about a lady with a red face and long blonde hair

 now here see me

 what we need

 what we need

 "I demand a little respect" Roger Dangerfield

 hard night, hard times, useless hard

 the writer

 hard night

 ding-dong

 ding-dong

 the death of paris and many things

 the old big time

 a certain pride here

 the yellow pencil

 the yellow pencil

 getting ready for a summer tan as suicides mount in Delaware

 zero

 action off the board

 bright boy

 the overhead mirrors

 beaujolais jadot

 beaujolais jadot

 joy ride

 nuke me, I wouldn't know

 the overhead mirrors

 beaujolais jadot

 divorce

 the death of the snowman

 suitable

 legs

 the day the epileptic spoke

 legs

 problems in the checkout line

 night on a Visa card

 the unhappy woman

 the beer bottle blow

 the beer bottle blow

 I'm a failure

 she goes for the spin-off

 for the foxes, the defamers, the tap dancers, and the dreamers of ballet

 the perfect silence

 secret laughter shining

 to the last one

 the announcer

 on first reading the great literature of the world

 upon first reading the great literature of the world

 upon first reading the great literature of the world

 the pelicans

 six weeks

 upon first reading the immortal literature of the world

 save the trees

 about the french movie director

 shut out

 don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me

 problems

 the alcoholic

 D. April 9, 1553

 a little cafe on 6th street in Pedro

 I been working on the railroad



1983

 self-inflicted

 the room

 the rock

 the parade

 disgusting

 the smirking of the dark

 the rivers

 the racetrack salutes you!

 do you believe that a writer can be taught to write?

 the dream

 zero

 the beats

 macho man

 a loser

 dark, and darker

 poem from down under

 the condition

 takeover

 those girls we followed home

 transformation

 transformation and disfiguration

 the darlings

 the darlings

 my walls of love

 darlings

 out of place

 the history of a tough motherfucker

 beauti-ful

 the history of a tough motherfucker

 lost in the various hinterlands

 beauti-ful

 goodbye, flying circus

 take it

 the star

 don't play it again sam

 he left

 fingernails

 oh, yes

 macho man

 THE POET

 like it was waiting

 here I am

 a smile to remember

 a smile to remember

 my critics are sometimes right

 fall out

 I fall into it without trying...

 how I got started

 truce

 how I got started

 proclamation and instructions

 how I got started

 not to worry

 note upon the love letters of Beethoven

 a hot sweaty day in August

 the little girls hissed

 a split

 repeat

 nice try

 nice try

 repeat

 repeat

 it was all right

 about pain

 interview

 NAKED AT 92 DEGREES

 success?

 balloons

 love

 decades centuries of error

 love

 i'll take it all

 love

 result

 result

 result

 the pack

 result

 something cares

 they need what they need

 talking to a part of my mailbox

 let them be found

 sex and/or love

 re-union

 Dear Mr. Chinaski

 Dear Mr. Martin

 some night

 the priest

 a note to the boys in the back room

 residue

 Saratoga hot walker

 it's fundamental

 shop talk

 for a man who walks around my typewriter very often

 girls get back on your reels

 eunuch

 it's no mystery

 killed by a bad poem

 out of the blue

 telephone

 eating my senior citizen's dinner at the Sizzler

 sweater

 the bookcase

 John Dillenger marches on

 suggestion for an arrangement

 the two toughest apes in the South Bay area (for K.P.)

 out of the money (Celine is 3 dots)



1984

 the good old machine

 a sensible fellow

 the luck of the blessed

 working out in hades

 greetings

 love

 rift

 you've got to fall up to get down

 overheard at the track

 eulogy

 my friend, the parking lot attendant

 punch-out

 note upon our very drab affair

 thanks for your help

 the personal license plate

 wine pulse

 loud of voice and way

 vulgarity

 living with the living dead

 dear editor

 is that your bicycle out there beneath the shade trees?

 working out on the hot brick road

 where was Jane?

 SOMETIMES WHEN YOU GET THE BLUES THERE MIGHT BE A DAMNED GOOD REASON

 the hatchet job

 the highschool girls

 a nature poem for you

 no man is an island, especially around Hollywood Park

 the chemistry of things

 miracle

 the lady who looks young forever

 this is free take it and feel better

 well that's just the way it is

 fire within the cesspool

 endurance

 the improbable probability

 see ending

 dream girl i understand your absence

 what I need

 he's probably ripping and tearing in hell right now...

 a magician, gone...

 oh, to be young!

 it's all so clearly simple

 help wanted

 in 1941

 murder

 party's over

 for my better readers

 working out



1985

 having the flu and nothing else to do

 in and out of the dark

 oh, it's important

 last a.m. poem

 the shack jobs

 the x-bum

 this is the real review

 practice

 escape

 the albums

 the son

 self-edit

 the boil

 yes

 horse fly

 my buddy

 all you guys

 huh?

 the great wine-maker

 my turn

 never look

 cohorts of the hoof

 never

 about the mail

 the fuck-master

 what can I do?

 quiet

 I thought the stuff tasted worse than usual

 London Bridges

 snake-eyes

 the mirage

 observation

 strictly bullshit

 too early too late and never

 who's who in america

 yeah

 here it is

 you must remember that each day you get out of bed, it's a new beginning...

 bombed away

 a cheer for modern contrivances

 driving test

 Hemingway, drunk before noon

 the unfolding

 going on

 lousy mail

 I have continued writing...

 SPEED!!!!!!!!

 gay paree

 hard times

 a gentle alcoholic night

 filling an order

 idols in the fight through darkness

 putrefaction

 it's all out the window...

 siege

 a difference

 it's never been so nice

 it's all right dont lay any guilt on me

 each man's hell is different

 spinning the ribbon

 good try, all

 loll

 huzza

 i'll take it

 a visitor complains of my disenfranchise...

 the flower of zero

 a good time

 a hell of a duet

 listening to my buddy at the factory

 wild

 the barometer

 a simple kindness

 snapshot

 B L O C K

 thoughts while having a sandwich and coffee at 12:45 p.m. at a local cafe:

 a happening

 final story

 down to it

 more than the blues

 looking out the plate glass window of this train

 hustling against the twilight

 untitled

 hot night

 the slob

 culture

 love crushed like a dead fly

 the way it is

 Gertude up the stairway

 not listed

 shop talk

 so cheer up

 I pour a drink and toast the love of my luck

 the mutilation of the species

 I'm not a misogynist but...

 dark night poem #12

 the luck of the way

 the dogs

 i'm so tired

 modern age insomnia



1986

 goodbye

 the burning of the dream

 on fame

 the walls are beautiful, the people are not

 the Rape of the Holy Mother

 cause and effect

 yeah

 this most delicate profession

 an angel and an asshole

 nothing's free, not even the sun...

 it's funny, isn't it?

 from #47695

 BUKOWSKI

 maintaining

 if I had failed the struggle there would have been none...

 my critics

 my friend, Howie

 ow

 about the PEN conference:

 dirty poem

 alphabet of an alcoholic

 no good

 be cool, fool

 it's all right

 it's all right

 lost in San Pedro

 lost in San Pedro

 my cat, the writer

 a lady who wants to help

 to the ladies who no longer think of me

 A.D. 701-62

 a re-evaluation

 just trying to get a little service

 buddha chinaski says

 birthday party

 a consideration of the structure------

 my cat, the writer

 the melt-down

 dear old dad

 the pretenders

 I am known

 near Nirvana

 the end of an era

 the other day i saw a man reading the Wall Street Journal as if it did contain something...

 a bit of gardening

 a terrible need

 how to get out?

 i am giving away the prize

 listen, let me tell you of olden days

 a common interest

 full circle

 dead

 tired in the afterdusk

 for the lady who hates it

 night quarterhorse racing, Hollywood Park

 sometimes you go a bit crazy

 the last drink

 no chance

 the dream, the dream, the dream...

 false praise

 the winner

 switching

 the girls and the birds

 pardon me you got some light

 immobile

 upon our location

 immortal wino

 yawn...

 a poem that doesn't work but one that I still keep playing with like a cat with a toy mouse that won't become alive



1988

 two writers

 the nurses



1989

 sometimes it's easier to kill somebody else

 battle call

 slob

 the knife

 the magic fix

 the smallest of talk

 credo

 definition

 nothing but a scarf

 observation

 some kind of nut

 the big three

 without fail



1990

 The Kenyon Review and other matters

 rags, bottles, sacks

 talk

 meeting them

 on the rebound

 the mirror game

 happy birthday

 the movies

 cancer

 days and nights

 my buddy

 girl on the escalator

 no leaders

 somebody else

 flying through space

 hello, how are you?

 not normal

 I am a true mole

 clothes cost money

 my buddy

 husk

 love poem

 sumatra cum laude

 the fix

 defect

 the place

 everything hurts to the edge of goodness

 a question

 the dream

 a lot of nothing

 curious

 to consider where we are in this low-moulded clamp

 kiss those days goodbye

 the last salamander

 please

 Stomping at the Savoy

 displaced

 the spill

 don't call me, I'll call you

 the gravel of sunlight

 perfect

 skinny-dipping

 I'm flattered

 Liszts

 accepted

 yes

 please

 bad night

 silverfish

 .188

 sewing machine needle

 cracking the odds

 fat boy

 some of this place

 hey, Pablo

 nothing

 the death of a hero

 why do you write so many poems about death?

 ow ow ow

 25 cents worth

 inside and outside

 yes

 mailbag

 neon

 The National Endowment for the Farts

 nothing to it

 the roaches

 strange

 free dinner

 self-invites

 you write many poems about death

 the glory days

 another interview

 1990 special

 it

 Dreiser wasn't so hot either

 straw hat

 visitation

 girl on the escalator

 outside the racetrack just before the 9th race

 insanity is the weakness of the will, gone begging

 it

 a startling sight

 before the 7th race, one mile, $32,000 claimer

 there are no great men or women

 the hit parade is a hit

 prelude

 the subway

 straw hat

 the interviewer

 the redemption, the glory and the act

 when the hunter hunts himself

 Drieser wasn't so hot either

 counsel

 me and Faulkner

 poem for nobody

 congrats, Chinask

 farewell

 sitting with the drunks

 the schoolyard of forever

 what makes?

 a final word on no final words

 checkmate

 journey

 hell

 another Portfolio

 poem for nobody

 small talk

 how do they get their jobs when I had to work in a dog biscuit factory?

 why oh why oh why and why not

 dusty shoes

 more than cheers

 breakfast

 lousy day

 the wine poems

 the telephone message machine

 clothes cost money

 note in and from a bottle

 the curse

 small talk

 the bedpan nightmare

 forewarned

 the way it is

 anyhow

 Henry Miller

 hurry

 October 4, 1990

 see here

 shop talk

 sights to see:

 the merciless nights

 oh my

 the bedpan nightmare

 the movies

 turtle

 gestation

 in finality

 oh my

 hello, how are you?

 ahhhhhh.....

 IBM

 upon reading an interview with a best selling novelist in the metropolitan daily

 bar

 change over

 somebody else

 upon reading an interview with a best selling novelist in the metropolitan daily

 the cork thing

 I am a true mole

 8 count and up

 being too young

 I'm buying

 our gang

 8 count and up

 Chinaski: skewered

 death is a good thing

 meeting them

 while listening to a piano concerto by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

 TB

 living in a great big way

 office supplies

 mailbag

 New York in hell

 the Death-Hole

 war and peace

 living in a great big way

 making it

 pardon me

 unclassical symphony

 the editor asked

 up, down and all around

 when I consider

 party girl

 TB

 flux

 seven come eleven

 the human sacrifices

 feeding the chickens and you

 in with the boys

 unclassical symphony

 zero minus zero minus zero minus



1991

 odd

 basic

 hunger

 Lord Byron

 a model

 spelling it out

 the people

 God's man

 the inspection

 no return address

 he's a dog who types

 rest period

 hardly Nirvana

 last will and testament

 a vote for the light

 old

 Chinaski

 the dangling carrot

 hurry slowly hurry

 lousy mail

 the modern life

 stuck with it

 picture this

 from the Dept. of English

 the disease of existence

 the interview

 not much singing

 he showed me his buttocks

 late payment

 walking with the dead

 old?

 the darkening light

 hymn from the hurricane of the blinking eye

 lousy mail

 mountain

 the swimming pool

 please

 Genius, unfettered

 don't forget

 the x-factor

 revolt in the ranks

 the hardest

 laugh a minute

 scene from 1940

 one more day

 clever

 the darkening light

 I don't know about you but

 the mail

 my big night on the town

 taken

 the poem

 German

 Dostoevsky

 it got away

 notes on the telephone

 the young poets

 computer now

 learning the ropes

 scrambled legs

 one of those

 coming out from under the

 a day so flat you could roll marbles on it

 I inherit

 man's best friend

 my companion

 telephone

 poem, poem, poem, poem

 the girls

 the dress maker

 the joke

 the 8 count concerto

 liar, liar, your pants are on fire!

 the secret life

 total madness

 dead

 I know you

 the march

 a name is nothing if the named is nothing

 what will the neighbors think?

 poetry readings

 giving thanks

 lark in the dark

 8 count

 the 60's

 crazy world

 hey, hey, hey

 life on the half shell

 computer class

 slow night

 open here

 they rolled they whole bed out of there

 dear Mr. Chinaski

 I used to feel sorry for Henry Miller

 neither Shakespeare or Mickey Spillane

 who needs it?

 poop

 a grounder to the shortstop

 just trying to do a good deed

 slow learner

 the 60's

 the crowd

 the horses of Mexico

 living in a great big way

 slow night

 our big day at the movies

 they are after me

 death and transfiguration

 I used to think

 a new war

 wind the clock

 the posers like to use:

 going

 killing life

 note from hell in the mailbox

 40,000

 cruising

 the lonely hearts of the universe

 the Mexican fighters

 snake eyes

 owl

 roll the dice

 defining the magic

 in one ear and out the other

 night cap

 with his awful teeth

 preparation hell

 good news

 traffic report

 the barometer

 a curious thing

 human nature

 the longest snake in the world

 the mice

 solving a crime before it begins is important too

 Paris in the Spring

 depression kid

 in search of the hero

 the Nile runs north

 putting it to bed

 hanging there

 now Ezra

 baseball

 hummingbird chance

 looking back

 the minute

 something's knocking at the door

 pause before the counter attack

 goading and whipping the muse

 no dice

 worse than nobody

 reading the little magazines

 the harder you try, the harder you die

 Hemingway never did this

 Hemingway never did this

 the damnation of Buk

 last seat at the end

 the damnation of Buk

 classical music and me

 Dinosauria, we

 Dinosauria, we

 in the shadow of the rose

 it got away

 the pile-up

 block

 last seat on the end

 last seat on the end

 welcome darkness

 the sheep

 paris

 writing

 writing

 these good people

 as the poems go

 hands

 writing

 the word

 met a man on the street

 met a man on the street

 some luck somehow

 classical

 the luck of the draw

 the horseplayer

 iron

 a member of the tribe

 night cap

 how to get rid of the great purists

 returning to an old love

 a note upon the masses

 a note on the masses

 cool fur

 genius by the shore



1992

 the riots

 a summation

 the great writer

 the death of an era

 working out

 the cigarette of the sun

 the cigarette of the sun

 the love for the first whore

 the circus of death

 ow said the cow to the fence that linked

 poem for my 72nd birthday, if I get there

 how it's done

 Jack

 the old man moves toward the bedroom

 dry

 on drinking

 am i the only one

 somniloquy

 hey, buddy, let's deal

 last poem of the night

 the stupidest thing I ever did

 the wine that roared like a lion

 i'm still no good

 stay out of my slippers you fool

 top gun

 way without end

 wise

 a conversation not to remember

 this is when they come in for what's left of your soul

 working out

 killing time

 faulkner

 tonight

 the great writer

 tremor

 chinaski in the tar pits

 the great escape

 more than ow

 well, when you can't write a poem

 the lost part

 remember

 bedtime story

 a good cause

 notice

 notice

 the couple

 notice

 notice

 all there is

 a moment

 ]]]]]

 heart in the cage

 organ play

 days without charm

 from the Dept. of English

 crawling toward winter

 down by the shore

 life people you and the purple dog which has nothing to do with any of this

 bless my greasy forehead

 waste

 the gamblers

 cicada

 rare

 business administration

 hot night

 two night before my 72nd birthday

 big deal

 you are and aren't

 poverty

 do you want to enter the arena?

 the condition book

 a wise-ass

 spit out and falling



1993

 Moving Toward Age 73

 crawl

 crime does pay

 cold summer

 made in the shade (Happy New Year)

 sour grapes

 one for Wolfgang

 now

 farewell, farewell

 Richard Nixon shook my hand



1994

 party

 #1

 club Hell

 club Hell

