Author: Charles Bukowski

little dark girl with Kind eyes When it comes time to Use the knife I won’t flinch and I won’t […]

I’ll settle for the 6 horse On a rainy afternoon A paper cup of coffee In my hand A little […]

when God created love he didn’t help most When God created dogs He didn’t help dogs When God created plants […]

I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, She said. Yes, yes? I asked. She’s young and pretty, she […]

from my bed I watch 3 birds On a telephone Wire. One flies Off. Then Another. One is left, Then […]

I read last Saturday in the Redwoods outside of Santa Cruz And I was about 3/4’s finished When I heard […]

the night I was going to die I was sweating on the bed And I could hear the crickets And […]

a symphony orchestra. There is a thunderstorm, They are playing a Wagner overture And the people leave their seats under […]

They are building a house Half a block down And I sit up here With the shades down Listening to […]

and the sun weilds mercy But like a jet torch carried to high, And the jets whip across its sight […]

I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for Two weeks – about The time […]

he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: The way she walked and talked […]

there are worse things than Being alone But it often takes decades To realize this And most often When you […]

some dogs who sleep ay night Must dream of bones And I remember your bones In flesh And best In […]

a girlfriend came in Built me a bed Scrubbed and waxed the kitchen floor Scrubbed the walls Vacuumed Cleaned the […]

not much chance, Completely cut loose from Purpose, He was a young man Riding a bus Through North Carolina On […]

by God, I don’t know what to Do. They’re so nice to have around. They have a way of playing […]

in the hospitals and jails It’s the worst In madhouses It’s the worst In penthouses It’s the worst In skid […]

Sunday, I am eating a Grapefruit, church is over at the Russian Orthadox to the West. She is dark Of […]

I cut the middle fingernail of the middle Finger Right hand Real short And I began rubbing along her cunt […]