Charles Bukowski Poems

Hit Title Date Added
51.
Flophouse

you haven't lived
until you've been in a
flophouse
with nothing but one
...

52.
The Aliens

you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very little
...

53.
I Made A Mistake

I reached up into the top of the closet
and took out a pair of blue panties
and showed them to her and
...

54.
Sway With Me

sway with me, everything sad -
madmen in stone houses
without doors,
lepers steaming love and song
...

55.
True

56.
Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do

I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
the book once radical-communist
John ended up in the Hollywood Hills living off investments
and reading the
...

57.
Some People

some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
they'll find me there.
...

58.
The Crunch

too much too little

too fat
too thin
...

59.
Rhyming Poem

60.
His Wife, The Painter

There are sketches on the walls of men and women and ducks,
and outside a large green bus swerves through traffic like
insanity sprung from a waving line; Turgenev, Turgenev,
says the radio, and Jane Austin, Jane Austin, too.
...

Close
Error Success