Bukowski's Poems

caught again at some impossible pass

the damnation of recognition

the days run away like wild horses

the death of a bee

to the academics

how long does love stay green

to kiss the worms goodnight

rest you merry gentlemen

the drowning of the ants

all the love of me goes out to her

beef tongue (for J.T.)

that liberating movement

horse from hell

a need for glue

down on the row

poem for an errand boy

the game players

when the violets roar

i met this woman

work fuck problems

my literary fly

Song for this softly sweeping sorrow

a very dramatic man

the creation of the morning line

my spirit was long ago

on the sidewalks

moons of honey drown the lark

crime and punishment

the ordinary cafe of the world

wide and revolving

artistic selfishness

a cop out to a possible immortality

the angel who pushed his wheelchair

theres people in places where snow lives

daylight saving

girls coming home in their cars

200 yards from the surf

a great man speaks of great men

i cant see anything

my hump backed laughing soul

robinson jeffers and love

woman in the supermarket

drunk and listening

THE ARCADE ROOM

it will come on padded feet

no bra no panties

something about a cat

she lost weight

the copulation blues

the lambs of laughter

big grey balloon things heavy

the police helicopter

did you ever think about that

the boy in red for a 20

a plausible finish

an afternoon in mid february 1974

one hundred dollars

the midnight dip

while sitting in a bar on sunset boulevard

the bells of the condom

it comes from somewhere

how good sleep is

the fulfillment

rosary for a once tenderness

lets be original

the apprentices

a song to the glorious lonely

my ol drinking buddies

blinks a litlle spot of senseless yellow

flashing white teeth

a poem for the swingers

I meet a vegetarian

bet too early in the 9th

the hollywood hustle

ill send you a postcard

drooling madness at st liz

in all fairness

in this place now

broken ass like a cherry seed down the throat

haul ass wonder woman

sometimes even putting a nickle

the knife waltz

thoughts on an evening

you back in the ninth row

the lady poetess

constitutional rights

the great film director

my lucky friend

after the reading

bright spots of lights or serpents

against the window panes

hayleys leaving town

i watch these thin hoofed beasts

one for the jag

to the soul seekers

a lovely couple

out on the branch

the famous poet

half a goldfish

my father and the bum

ezras pretty tough

she caught it in the air

thoughts from a stone bench in venice

mean and stingy

its all a matter of entertainment

the little girls

little tigers everywhere

3 pairs of panties

after the reading

im getting back to where i was

the silver mirror

the hallelujah chorus

traffic signals

white like snow

life off hollywood and western

a touch of steel

shit sometimes it gets so lonely

her porsche is a pale pink

the poem of the empty bed

the fortune teller

the death trend

war and that particular bayonet

stravinsky on a saturday night at 718 pm

poet and poetess

Carlton Way off of Western

goodbye goodbye clipped wing bluebird

pacific telephone

note for my wall

two men at the track

note left on the dresser by a ladyfriend

a lazy afternoon

professional counseling

how ya gonna keep em down

a matter of size

a note upon starvation

a note upon waste

i do it while thinking about things

the pretty girl who rented rooms

these same walls

a most serious fellow

sam the mailman

shes free and shes wild

the firing of the canons

the ladies who rip men apart

the old quarterback

trainers instructions

its not exactly the sun

some notes on the word and the way

o the literaray life

were all so wanted

1145pm discussion

and my mother had a nice umbrella

I been workin on the railroad

plate glass window

the finish of moby dick

theres one in every bar

the whores the people

venice california november 1977

afterwards aka scarlet

2nd street near hollister

I drove her to the food stamp place

overt population

he uses unwaxed dental floss

the deathly bravo

one thirty six am 1

one thirty six am 2

TRAFFIC AND SAFE DRIVING RULES

have a nice day

hollywood ranch market

sibelius and etc

the big weight lifting feat

women at my dresser mirror

coming and going

a member of the jury

little magazines and poetry chapbooks

so i got out the

there was always the danger

death of the toteboards hollywood

ive looked everywhere

the end of a short

the E was all right

the playboy of the western world

you cant make a lion

trouble in the ghetto

action down on the corner

the girls are gone

sad letters from up north

a big thursday night

have a nice day

the letters of john steinbeck

water the plants

hop skip and jump

just a touch of mox

I dont need a Cleopatra

he likes to be alone

within my own madness

eating the father

the german hotel

the lady in red

the old pinch hitter

a place to relax

the piano player

what have I seen

one for the gang

I dont need a Cleopatra

my father wanted me to be a mechanical draftsman

i dont need a cleopatra

my father wanted me to be

my father wanted me to be a mechanical draftsman but

the new neighborhood

me and pounds girlfriend

the drunk with the little legs

the secret of my endurance

the secret of my endurance

the secret of my endurance

pleased to meet you

THE PRINCESS TINA

the drowning of the id

with a flagpole over the

do you use a notebook

do you use a notebook

the liberated woman and the liberated air

the liberated woman and the liberated air

the liberated woman

notes upon a hot streak

if you dont know where its at stay where you are

a saturday afternoon

lazing in san pedro

swinging from the dumb hook

helping friends

the temporal ease

american literature II

ladies talking on the telephone

youre not going to believe this

unemployed and shacking

heads without faces seen in all the places

heads without faces

heads without faces seen in all the places

horses dont bet on people

only the dragging of time like a dry turd

unloading the goods

unloading the goods

let nothing ever happen

the poetry game

an unliterary afternoon

let nothing ever happen

the poetry game

be angry at San Pedro

all that like that

as much as i hate to

be angry at San Pedro

in my day we used to

the guitar player

the miracle man

heavy like dogs with cement shoes walking my skull

talking to the barkeep1

talking to the barkeep

forget your writing class

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

harbor freeway south

listening to the radio

the night i broke away from Hemingway

the old soul suck life

I never bring my wife

bearclaw morning

my mexican buddy

bearclaw morning

the machinary of loss

the old anarchist

the old anarchist

dont worry about dying

pain like an old black and white snapshot

back to the machinegun

carson mccullers

knowing all along that

the green cadillac

the last generation

ma barker would have loved me

the sadness in the air

and i still dont vote

pain like an old

ma barker would have loved me

the sadness in the air

no man is an island

about a correspondence

a close call while shopping

how was your childhood

kenyon review after the sandstorm

kitchen floor poem

no man is an island

writing is very much a state of trance

writing is a state of trance

an answer to an eventh grade student

letter to a freind with a domestic problem

a mention of some lucky payoffs

the train station

the beautiful rush

the beautiful rush

men without women per Hemingway

good morning how are you

men without women

the eternal players

the factory crew of southeast LA

men without women

the main course

sardines in striped dresses

a statement upon the journey

I might get traded

life death love art 2

LIFE DEATH LOVE ART

the main course

darlings of the word

regrets of a sort

the new revolution

it only gets pleasant

the girls from nowhere

the faithful wife

the girls from nowhere

short story form

short story form

a lady with some french wine

now here see me

poem about a lady with a red face

i demand a little respect

hard night hard times useless hard

the death of paris and many things

a certain pride here

the old big time

the yellow pencil

getting ready for a summer

the yellow pencil

action off the board

beaujolais jadot

the overhead mirrors

the main course

beaujolais jadot

nuke me i wouldnt know

beaujolais jadot

the overhead mirrors

the death of the snowman

the day the epileptic spoke

problems in the checkout line

night on a visa card

she goes for the spin off

the beer bottle blow2

the beer bottle blow

the unhappy woman

the perfect silence

secret laughter shining

to the last one

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

upon first reading

about the french movie director

dont sit under the apple tree

a little cafe on 6th street in san pedro

i been working on the railroad

dark and darker

do you believe that writer can be taught to write

the racetrack salutes you

the smirking of the dark

poem from down under

the girls we followed home

transformation and disfiguration

my walls of love

the history of a tough motherfucker

goodbye flying circus

lost in the various hinterlands

the history of a tough motherfucker

dont play it again sam

like it was waiting

a smile to remember

a smile to remember

i fall into it without trying

my critics are sometimes right

how i got started

a hot sweaty day in august

how i got started

note upon the love letters of Beethoven

proclamation and instructions

the little girls hissed

it was all right

NAKED AT 92 DEGREES

decades centuries of error

ill take it all

something cares

they need what they need

talking to a part of my mailbox

dear mr chinaski

let them be found

sex and or love

a note to the boys in the back room

saratoga hot walker

for a man who walks around my typewriter very often

girls get back on your reels

its fundamental

killed by a bad poem

out of the blue

eating my senior citizens dinner at the sizzler

john dillenger marches on

out of the money

suggestion for an arrangement

the two toughest apes

a sensible fellow

the luck of the blessed

working out in hades

my friend the parking lot attendant

note upon our very drab affair

overheard at the track

thanks for your help

youve got to fall up to get down

the personal license plate

loud of voice and way

living with the living dead

is that your bicycle

working out on the hot brick road

sometimes when you get the blues

a nature poem for you

no man is an island especially around hollywood park

the hatchet job

the highschool girls

fire within the cesspool

the chemistry of things

the lady who looks young forever

this is free take it and feel better

well thats just the way

the improbable probability

dream girl i understand your absence

hes probably ripping and tearing

a magician gone

its all so clearly simple

for my better readers

having the flu and nothing else to do

in and out of the dark

oh its important

this is the real review

cohorts of the hoof

the fuck master

the great wine maker

i thought the stuff tasted worse that usual

strictly bullshit

too early too late and never

a cheer for modern contrivances

whos who in america

you must remember

hemingway drunk before noon

i have continued writing

a gentle alcoholic night

filling an order

idols in the fight through darkness

its all out the window

its never been so nice

each mans hell is different

its all right dont lay any guilt on me

spinning the ribbon

a visitor complains of my disenfranchise

the flower of zero

a hell of a duet

listening to my buddy at the factory

a simple kindness

thoughts while having a sandwich

more than the blues

hustling against the twilight

looking out the plate glass window

gertrude up the stairway

i pour a drink and toast

the mutilation of the species

im not a misogynist but

dark night poem 12

modern age insomnia

the luck of the way

an angel and an asshole

cause and effect

its funny isnt it

nothings free not even the sun

the burning of the dream

the rape of the holy mother

this most delicate profession

about the pen conference

if I had failed the struggle there would have been none

my friend howie

the walls are beautiful the people are not

alphabet of an alcoholic

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 re evaluation

just trying to get a little service

a consideration of the structure

buddha chinaski says

my cat the writer

a bit of gardening

a terrible need

the end of an era

the other day i saw a man

i am giving away the prize

a common interest

let me tell you of olden days

for the lady who hates it

night quarterhorse racing hollywood park

sometimes you go a bit crazy

tired in the afterdusk

the dream the dream

the girls and the birds

pardon me you got some light

upon our location

a poem that doesnt work

the smallest of talk

nothing but a scarf

some kind of nut

girl on the escalator

i am a true mole

reading the little magazines

revolt in the ranks

somebody else B

the horses of Mexico

the kenyon review and other matters

the mirror game

clothes cost money

sumatra cum laude

a lot of nothing

everything hurts to the edge of goodness

to consider where we are

kiss those days goodbye

the last salamander

stomping at the savoy

dont call me ill call you

the gravel of sunlight

sewing machine needle

cracking the odds

some of this place

inside and outside

the death of a hero

why do you write so many

the national endowment

another interview

you write many poems about death

drieser wasnt so hot either

girl on the escalator

outside the racetrack just before the 9th race

a startling sight

before the seveth race

insanity is the weakness of the will

there are no great men or women

the hit parade is a hit

the interviewer

Drieser wasnt so hot either

the redemption the glory and the act

when the hunter hunts himself

me and faulkner

poem for nobody

congrats chinaski

sitting with the drunks

a final word on no final words

the schoolyard of forever

another portfolio

poem for nobody

how do they get their jobs

more than cheers

why oh why oh why and why not

the telephone message machine

clothes cost money

note in and from a bottle

hello how are you

the bedpan nightmare

the merciless nights

the bedpan nightmare

hello how are you

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

upon reading an interview

i am a true mole

genius by the shore

being too young

cinaski skewered

death is a good thing

while listening to a piano concerto

living in a great big way

office supplies

new york in hell

living in a great big way

the editor asked

unclassical symphony

up down and all around

when i consider

seven come eleven

the human sacrifices

feeding the chickens and you

in with the boys

unclassical symphony

zero minus zero minus zero minus

a curious thing

a grounder to the shortstop

a name is nothing if the named is nothing

a note upon the masses

a vote for the light

coming out from under the

dear Mr Chinaski

death and transfiguration

defining the magic

from the Dept of English

Genius unfettered

goading and whipping the muse

hes a dog who types

he showed me his buttocks

hummingbird chance

hurry slowly hurry

hymn from the hurricane of the blinking eye

i dont know about you but

in one ear and out the other

in search of the hero

i used to feel sorry for Henry Miller

i used to think

just trying to do a good deed

lark in the dark

last will and testament

learning the ropes

liar liar your pants are on fire

life on the half shell

living in a great big way

made in the shade happy new year

mans best friend

my big night on the town

neither Shakespeare or Mickey Spillane

no return address

note from hell in the mailbox

notes on the telephone

not much singing

our big day at the movies

Paris in the Spring

pause before the counter attack

poem poem poem poem

poetry readings

preparation hell

putting it to bed

scene from 1940

solving a crime before it begins is important too

somethings knocking at the door

spelling it out

the 8 count concerto

the dangling carrot

the darkening light 1

the darkening light 2

the disease of existence

the dress maker

the great writer

the harder you try the harder you die

the lonely hearts of the universe

the longest snake in the world

the love for the first whore

the Mexican fighters

the modern life

the nile runs north

the posers like to use

the secret life

the swimming pool

they are after me

the young poets

they rolled the whole bed out of there

walking with the dead

what will the neighbors think

with his awful teeth

worse than nobody

Hemingway never did this

Hemingway never did this

last seat on the end

the damnation of Buk 1

the damnation of Buk 2

classical music and me

in the shadow of the rose

last seat on the end 1

last seat on the end 2

welcome darkness

as the poems go

these good people

met a man on the street

met a man on the street

some luck somehow

the luck of the draw

the horseplayer

a member of the tribe

how to get rid of the great purists

returning to an old love

a note on the masses

ow said the cow

poem for my 72nd birthday if I get there

the cigarette of the sun1

the cigarette of the sun2

the circus of death

the death of an era

the old man moves toward the bedroom

am i the only one

hey buddy lets deal

last poem of the night

the stupidest thing i ever did

im still no good

the wine that roared like a lion

stay out of my slippers you fool

a conversation not to remember

way without end

this is when they come in

the great writer

chinaski in the tar pits

the great escape

well when you cant write a poem

days without charm

from the dept of english

heart in the cage

crawling toward winter

down by the shore

bless my greasy forehead

life people you and the purple dog

business administration

two nights before my 72nd birthday

you are and arent

do you want to enter the arena

the condition book

spit out and falling

moving toward age 73

one for Wolfgang

farewell farewell

richard nixon shook my hand

1926 dodge tijuana

a well known poet and myself

baby needs a new castle

beer and cigars via telephone

days and nights

doom like those

early morning beer and not much else

even chatterton

flying through space

looking for jack michelene

love crushed like a dead fly

now the professors

only the truly lost

poem for an x bank clerk

poem to Yevtushkenko

rags bottles sacks

society should realize

sometimes its easier to kill

song of the flies

the girl outside the supermarket

the good old machine

the hearts riot

the palmleaves of california

to a girl in march wind

to jane cooney baker