The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Part 1

German

The Old Girl

The Birds

Game Day

Gas

Mystery Leg

Be Cool, Fool

An Unliterary Afternoon

Poop

The End of an Era

The 60’s

The Would-be Horseplayer

The Night Richard Nixon Shook My Hand

Throwing Away the Alarm Clock

Pretenders

$1.25 a Gallon

Floss-Job

A Friendly Place

The Old Couple

What?

Born Again

Card Girls

It’s Never Been So Good

Goading the Muse

The Wavering Line

The Road to Hell

Crucifixion

Barfly

Part 2

Thoughts While Eating a Sandwich

Nothing’s Free

What Bothers Them Most

Into the Wastebasket

It’s Over and Done

Nice Guy

Feet to the Fire

The Poetry Game

The Fix is In

Photos

Tonight

A Visitor Complains

Besieged

The Novice

Cleopatra Now

Please

The Barometer

Enemy of the King, 1935

Nights of Vanilla Mice

Lark in the Dark

Lonely Hearts

B as in Bullshit

A Riot in the Streets

Interlude

D.N.F.

Reading Little Poems in Little Magazines

How to Get Away?

The Difficulty of Breathing

Help Wanted and Received

Heart in the Cage

Places to Die and Places to Hide

Poem for the Young and Tough

Ow

My Doom Smiles at me—

Hey, Kafka!

A Strange Visit

1970 Blues

Snow White

Sour Grapes

Fencing with the Shadows

A Hell of a Duet

The Dogs

Part 3

Cold Summer

Crime Does Pay

Throwing My Weight Around

They Rolled the Bed Out of There

Crawl

Nothing Here

My Last Winter

First Poem Back

A Summation

Walking Papers

Alone in this Room

Farewell, Farewell

About the Mail Lately

Life on the Half Shell

The Hardest

A Terrible Need

Body Slam

The Gods are Good

The Sound of Typewriters

A Fight

Sunbeam

Apparitions

Speed

It’s Difficult to See Your Own Death Approaching

Made in the Shade (Happy New Year)

One for Wolfgang

Night unto Night

Notes on Some Poetry

The Buzz

A Simple Kindness

Good Try, All

Proper Credentials are Needed to Join

Silly Damned thing Anyhow

Moth to the Flame

7 Come 11

Put out the Light

Foxholes

Calm Elation, 1993

Part 4

I have this New Room

Writing

Human Nature

Notations

Democracy

Kraznick

Hungaria, Symphonia Poem #9 by Franz Liszt

Club Hell, 1942

Unloading the Goods

Saratoga Hot Walker

The Sixties?

Experience

Fame at Last

Party of Nine

He Showed me his Back

The Unfolding

Drunk Before Noon

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

They are After me

Feeling Fairly Good Tonight

There’s a Poet on Every Bar Stool

Valet

Prescience

10:45 A.M

The Horses of Mexico

A Big Night

A Musical Difference

You Tell me What it Means

Dear Reader:

Not Much Singing

The Shadows

A Pause Before the Counter Attack

Picture this

9 Bad Boys

One More Day

About the Author

By Charles Bukowski

Copyright

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