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Cover

Title Page

Epigraph

Contents

Part 1

So You Want To Be a Writer?

My Secret Life

The Column

Commerce

The Mexican Fighters

This Dog

The Great Escape

A Quick One

The Old Anarchist

And I Still Won‘t Vote

Just Trying To Do a Good Deed

One Step Removed

My Life As a Sitcom

A Mechanical Lazarus

My God

After the Sandstorm

Carry On!

Straw Hats

Drink and Wait

Basking In the Evil Light

What Can I Do?

Out of the Sickroom and Into the White Blazing Sun

Temporal Ease

You Never Liked Me

Our Big Day At the Movies

About Competition

Fingernails

Iron

Extraterrestrial Visitor

Small Talk

Too Sweet

Work-Fuck Problems

Observations on Music

Fly Boy

Unblinking Grief

Houses and Dark Streets

The Joke Is on the Sun

Part 2

Like a Polluted River Flowing

Girlfriends

Escape 1942

A Strange Horse Poem

The Longest Snake In the World

The Niceties

Time To Water the Plants and Feed the Cat

I‘m Flattered

Neither Shakespeare Nor Mickey Spillane

Show Business

Pop!

The Interview

Re-Union

Genius Unfettered

Bob

Bearclaw Morning

Death and Transfiguration

Warriors In This Place

A Sickness?

A Fine Night

Riots

Venice Beach

The Con Job

Looking Back

The Love Poems of Catullus

Dream Girl

Empties

The Landlady

About the Mail

Have You Ever Pulled a Lion‘s Tail?

Who Needs It?

Tight Black Pants

The Weirdest Day

Burning Bright

The Death of a Hero

Hooked

Found Poems

Runaway Inflation

The Significance Was Obscure

Cracking the Odds

Working Through It All

Giving Thanks

Los Angeles

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Why Do You Write So Many Poems About Death?

Evidence

Part 3

A Wise Ass

The Dressmaker

Lunch In Beverly Hills

She Was Really Mad

A Tree, a Road, a Toad

In One Ear and Out the Other

Excuses

Bygone Days

In a Lady‘s Bedroom

Model Friend

The Invitation

Hollywood Hustle

Buddha Chinaski Says

Like Lazarus

Soft and Fat Like Summer Roses

In Transit

“Dear Mr. Chinaski”

Silverfish

The Popularity Kid

Death and White Glue

Fun Times: 1930

My Bully

Ow Ow Ow

The Singers

The March

The Way Things Are

Words For You

Strictly Bullshit

Written Before I Got One

Straight On

Remember This

Now See Here

Little Poem

Part 4

Gertrude Up the Stairway, 1943

Where Was I?

Sloppy Day

Note on the Telephone

At the Edge

Heads Without Faces, Seen In All the Places

Coming Awake

The Simple Truth

Here and Now

Crazy World

Good Stuff

Respite

The Horse Player

Displaced

In Search of a Hero

Escapade

Burning, Burning

Upon Reading an Interview with a Best-Selling Novelist

Nothing To It

This Place

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Regrets of a Sort

Too Young

Listening To the Radio At 1:35 A.M.

Unclassical Symphony

Dinner For Free

A Song From the 70’s

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War Some of the Time

At Last

Misbegotten Paradise

My Big Night on the Town

Nobody But You

Like a Dolphin

About the Author

By Charles Bukowski

Copyright

About the Publisher