A Man (Charles Bukowski Poem)
George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His dinner dishes were undone, ...
George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His dinner dishes were undone, ...
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: "Chinaski, you got a following in Denver..." ...
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped ...
For a Child of 1918 My grandfather said to me as we sat on the wagon seat, "Be sure to ...
Do you believe, in what you see do you believe in reality do you believe in the sun that's bright ...
Departure At last, I'm leaving the familiar roof! I'm undeterred by rain and wind. This presentation should be quite a ...
I don't know man trust is a precious thing a kind of humility Offer it to a snake and get ...
alas our good kaspar is dead. who will bury a burning flag in the wings of the clouds who will ...
Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating ...
The city purrs, it hums along, the morning hardly risen. A well-dressed drunk smears her finger across a doorman's lips ...
The door is shut. She leaves the curtained office, And down the grey-walled stairs comes trembling slowly Towards the dazzling ...
What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai? You narrow your long dark eyes to fascinate me; You smile a ...
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die, And youth, that's now so bravely ...
They tell me that your heart has been found in Iowa, pumping along Interstate 35. Do you want it back? ...
I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel The full deliciousness of this bright day, That's like a heart ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye, Around about the wondrous days of yore, They came across a ...
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
We are sending you, dear flowers Forth alone to die, Where your gentle sisters may not weep O'er the cold ...
In measured verse I'll now rehearse The charms of lovely Anna: And, first, her mind is unconfined Like any vast ...
Fall fell: so that's it for the leaf poetry: some flurries have whitened the edges of roads and lawns: time ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
We smile at each other and I lean back against the wicker couch. How does it feel to be dead? ...
Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet andsalutes the sky. More of ...
Under her dark veil she wrung her hands. "Why are you so pale today?" "Because I made him drink of ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
A night drive to Ein Yahav in the Arava Desert, a drive in the rain. Yes, in the rain. There ...
All night the army came up from Gilgal To get to the killing field, and that's all. In the ground, ...
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