The People Look Like Flowers At Last电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

One

For They had Things to Say

Evening Class, 20 Years Later

The Snow of Italy

Near a Plate Glass Window

Beef Tongue

The 1930s

People as Flowers

Acceptance

Life At the P.O

The Minute

Too Near the Slaughterhouse

A Future Congressman

Stranger in a Strange City

Just Another Wino

It is Not Much

The Bull

The People, No

You Might as well Kiss Your Ass Goodbye

Purple Glow

One Thousand Dollars

Grip the Dark

The Dwarf with a Punch

The Elephants of Vietnam

Breakfast

Inverted Love Song

Salty Dogs

Brainless Eyes

Unbelievable

War and Peace

The Harder You Try

Two

All the Little Girls

No More of Those Young Men

Legs

Jane’s Shoes

Rimbaud be Damned

Bewitched in New York

Don’t Worry, Baby, I’ll Get It

The Telephone Message Machine

That Nice Girl Who Came in to Change the Sheets

An Agreement on Tchaikovsky

Love Song to the Woman I Saw Wednesday At the Racetrack

Possession

Six

Man Mowing the Lawn Across the Way from Me

The Girl Outside

The Chicken

An Ancient Love

Match Point

I Also Like to Look At Ceilings

No Cagney, Me

Soup, Cosmos and Tears

Peacock or Bell

Purple and Black

Fulfillment

Yours

Kissing Me Away

Goodbye, My Love

Heat

The Police Helicopter

Ah

Of Course

The Dream, The Dream

Note on the Tigress

Three

Poem for My Daughter

Sheets

Sick Leave

My Father

The old Woman

What Made You Lose Your Inspiration?

Another Poem About a Drunk and Then I’ll Let You Go

Dead Dog

I Live in a Neighborhood of Murder

The Bombing of Berlin

All Right, Camus

Quits

Adolf

The Anarchists

Perfect White Teeth

4 Blocks

You Can’t Force Your Way Through the Eye of the Needle

Two Kinds of Hell

My Faithful Indian Servant

A Plausible Finish

Another One of My Critics

Fog

Free?

Imported Punch

It Was an Underwood

The Creation Coffin

The 7 Horse

The Suicide

Overcast

The Final Word

Fingernails; Nostrils; Shoelaces

After Receiving a Contributor’s Copy

Poor Night

You Write Many Poems About Death

Four

Dog

The Hatred for Hemingway

Looking At the Cat’s Balls

Contributors’ Notes

On Beer Cans And Sugar Cartons

Pay Your Rent or Get Out

Note on a Door Knocker

The American Flag Shirt

Age

The Dogs Bark Knives

The Hog in the Hedge

I Never Bring My Wife

An Interview At 70

2 Views

Van Gogh and 9 Innings

9 A.M

Lousy Day

Sadness in the Air

The Great Debate

Our Deep Sleep

The Sorry History of Myself

Law

A Great Writer

A Gigantic Thirst

Eulogies

A Residue

1990 Special

Passage

A Most Dark Night in April

Sun Coming Down

About the Author

By Charles Bukowski

Credits

Copyright

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