Charles Bukowski Poems

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31.
Eulogy To A Hell Of A Dame

some dogs who sleep At night
must dream of bones
and I remember your bones
in flesh
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32.
Finish

We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
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33.
Friends Within The Darkness

I can remember starving in a
small room in a strange city
shades pulled down, listening to
classical music
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34.
Curtain

the final curtain on one of the longest running
musicals ever, some people claim to have
seen it over one hundred times.
I saw it on the tv news, that final curtain:
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35.
For Jane

225 days under grass
and you know more than I.
they have long taken your blood,
you are a dry stick in a basket.
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36.
Eat Your Heart Out

I've come by, she says, to tell you
that this is it. I'm not kidding, it's
over. this is it.
I sit on the couch watching her arrange
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37.
Oh Yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
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38.
8 Count

from my bed
I watch
3 birds
on a telephone
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39.
We Ain'T Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain

call it the greenhouse effect or whatever
but it just doesn't rain like it used to.
I particularly remember the rains of the
depression era.
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40.
Whats The Use Of A Title?

They don't make it
the beautiful die in flame-
suicide pills, rat poison, rope what-
ever...
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