Charles Bukowski Poems

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11.
As The Sparrow

To give life you must take life,
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea
I pass upon serious inward-breaking shoals rimmed
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12.
A Radio With Guts

it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street
I used to get drunk
and throw the radio through the window
while it was playing, and, of course,
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13.
The Genius Of The Crowd

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
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14.
Confession

waiting for death
like a cat
that will jump on the
bed
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15.
As The Poems Go

As the poems go into the thousands you
realize that you've created very
little.
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16.
Back To The Machine Gun

I awaken about noon and go out to get the mail
in my old torn bathrobe.
I'm hung over
hair down in my eyes
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17.
Consummation Of Grief

I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
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18.
Carson Mccullers

she died of alcoholism
wrapped in a blanket
on a deck chair
on an ocean
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19.
40,000

at the track today,
Father's Day,
each paid admission was
entitled to a wallet
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20.
2 Flies

The flies are angry bits of life;
why are they so angry?
it seems they want more,
it seems almost as if they
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