Charles Bukowski 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