Slouching Toward Nirvana电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Part One

A 4th of July in the Early 30’s

Without Stress or Agony

My Close Call

Clothes Cost Money

An Easy way to Die

We have Hand Guns Around Here

Making Do

Rare Indeed

The Poet

Bolero

A Winter Memory

Living in a Great Big Way

Then and Now

How did they get their Job?

Paper and People

Writer’s Block

Disorder and Early Sorrow

In this Place

The Uninitiated

Cicada

Never Interrupt a Writer at Work

Oh My

Meeting Them

No Eulogies, Please

Finality

The Machinery of Loss

Part Two

Damsels of the Night

Forewarned

She Lost Weight

Military Surplus

A Difficult Woman

Talk

Where the Action is Real

Academy Award?

Beach Boys

I’m No Good

Friend of the Family

Solving a Crime Before it Begins

Note for My Wall

The Wine that Roared

2:07 A.M.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Do We Really Care?

For Crying Out Loud

High School Girls

Emergency

For a Woman who might Some Day Become a Nun:

Some People ask for It

Against the Window Pane

An Answer to a Day’s Worth of Mail:

New York, New York

The Knife Waltz

Dusty Shoes

Vulgar Poem

This One

The Big Lonely Night

Part Three

One A.M.

The Curse

With his Awful Teeth

Golden Boy

Surreal Tangerines

Little Magazines and Poetry Chapbooks

My Buddy

Last Friday Night

Open Here

A Name is Nothing if the Named is Nothing

The Stupidest Thing I Ever Did

You can’t make A Lion out of A Butterfly

I Don’t Know About you But

It’s a Drag Just Breathing

A Hard Lesson

A Conversation to Remember

Picture Show

He Played First Base

The Suicide Kid

Snake Eyes and Faulty Screams

I fought them from the moment I saw Light

Now, Ezra,

Concession

It

Terror

My Rosy Ass

This is A Bitter Poem

Poem for Nobody

Checkmate

The Tide

To Hell and Back

Something’s Knocking at the Door

Regardless

Part Four

The Dandy

I am a Mole

Somebody Else

IBM Selectric

Why Oh Why and Oh Why Not?

Movies

No Luck at All

Good News

Bedpan Nightmare

Robert

Private Screenings

As you Slow Down the Mermaids look the Other Way

Something New

The Swimming Pool

The Great Writer

I used to Think

From the Department of Health

Working Out

My Friend William Burroughs

A Note Upon Starvation

Poem for My 70th Birthday

You’ll Never Know

Joe

Top Gun

It’s Strange

Explosion

Small Talk

Basic

About the Author

By Charles Bukowski

Copyright

About the Publisher