Charles Bukowski Poems

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31.
Death Wants More Death

death wants more death, and its webs are full:
I remember my father's garage, how child-like
I would brush the corpses of flies
from the windows they thought were escape-
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32.
Pull A String, A Puppet Moves

each man must realize
that it can all disappear very
quickly:
the cat, the woman, the job,
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33.
I Met A Genius

I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
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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.
About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter

he lives in a house with a swimming pool
and says the job is
killing him.
he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem to
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38.
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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39.
8 Count

from my bed
I watch
3 birds
on a telephone
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40.
16-Bit Intel 8088 Chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
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