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, ...
drunk again at 3 a.m. at the end of my 2nd bottle of wine, I have typed from a dozen ...
I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me. My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
Across the floor flits the mechanical toy, fit for a king of several centuries back. A little circus horse with ...
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of ...
In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist's appointment and sat and waited for her in ...
I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in ...
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that ...
In the red-roofed stucco house of my childhood, the dining room was screened off by folding doors with small glass ...
The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness, Circled three times above the upturned faces With a great whir of ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
'This envelope you say has something in it Which once belonged to your dead son-or something He knew, was fond ...
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
You read-what is it, then that you are reading? What music moves so silently in your mind? Your bright hand ...
'Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . . Draw three cards, and lay them down, Rest ...
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often praised; and ...
from Senlin: A Biography It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning When the light drips through the shutters ...
The yard half a yard, half a lake blue as a corpse. The lake will tell things you long to ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
O lesson well and wisely taught Stay with me to the last, That all my life may better be For ...
Four days the earth was rent and torn By bursting steel, The houses fell about us; Three nights we dared ...
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
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