The Pleasures of the Damned - Charles Bukowski [0]
Poems, 1951–1993
Charles Bukowski
Edited by John Martin
Contents
the mockingbird
something’s knocking at the door
his wife, the painter
on the sidewalk and in the sun
the elephants of Vietnam
dark night poem
the last days of the suicide kid
tabby cat
metamorphosis
a poem is a city
a smile to remember
a free 25-page booklet
they, all of them, know
a future congressman
eulogy
the drowning
fooling Marie (the poem)
the young man on the bus stop bench
for they had things to say
silly damned thing anyhow
upon reading an interview with a best-selling novelist in our metropolitan daily newspaper
harbor freeway south
schoolyards of forever
in the lobby
sex
a clean, well-lighted place
something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you…
blue beads and bones
like a cherry seed in the throat
turnabout
mystery leg
the girl outside the supermarket
it is not much
2 Outside, As Bones Break in My Kitchen
The Japanese Wife
the harder you try
the lady in red
the shower
i was glad
the angel who pushed his wheelchair
a time to remember
the wrong way
no wonder
a threat to my immortality
my telephone
Carson McCullers
Mongolian coasts shining in light
putrefaction
where was Jane?
something about a woman
Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission
trashcan lives
school days
grass
crucifix in a deathhand
the screw-game
millionaires
when you wait for the dawn to crawl through the screen like a burglar to take your life away
the talkers
art
advice for some young man in the year 2064 A.D
ice for the eagles
girl in a mini skirt reading the Bible outside my window
hell is a lonely place
the girls and the birds
1813–1883
no leaders, please
song
one for Sherwood Anderson
bow wow love
the day the epileptic spoke
when Hugo Wolf went mad—
in a neighborhood of murder
the strangest sight you ever did see—
the 2nd novel
junk
Mademoi selle from Armentières
now
society should realize…
the souls of dead animals
the tragedy of the leaves
the birds
the loner
The Genius of the Crowd
German bar
the snow of Italy
for Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough
notice
for Jane
eulogy to a hell of a dame
barfly
was Li Po wrong?
the night I saw George Raft in Vegas
I am eaten by butterflies
the veryest
man mowing the lawn across the way from me
oh, yes
poop
Phillipe’s 1950
downtown
elephants in the zoo
girl on the escalator
the shit shits
big time loser
commerce
come on in!
the bakers of 1935
secret laughter
Democracy
an empire of coins
what?
the American Flag Shirt
now she’s free
the simple truth
gold in your eye
a great writer
the smoking car
the shoelace
self-inflicted wounds
Verdi
the young lady who lives in Canoga Park
life of the king
my failure
a boy and his dog
liberated woman and liberated man
small talk
the crunch
fun house
the poetry reading
somebody
the colored birds
poem for personnel managers
my fate
my atomic stockpile
Bruckner (2)
hello, how are you?
vacancy
batting slump
bang bang
the pleasures of the damned
one more good one
the little girls hissed
ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha
thoughts from a stone bench in Venice
scene in a tent outside the cotton fields of Bakersfield
3:16 and one half…
a literary discussion
butterflies
the great escape
my friend William
safe
starve, go mad, or kill yourself
the beautiful lady
my life as a sitcom
who needs it?