What Matters Most is How Well You电子书

Dedication

Contents

Part 1

my father and the bum

legs, hips and behind

igloo

the mice

my garden

legs and white thighs

Mademoiselle from Armentières

my father’s big-time fling

the bakers of 1935

the people

the pretty girl who rented rooms

too soon

canned heat?

Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939

scene from 1940:

my big moment

daylight saving time

the railroad yard

horseshit

man’s best friend

the sensitive, young poet

hunger

the first one

the night I saw George Raft in Vegas

no title

too many blacks

white dog

blue beads and bones

ax and blade

some notes on Bach and Haydn

born to lose

Phillipe’s 1950

in the lobby

he knows us all

victory!

more argument

wind the clock

what?

she comes from somewhere

lifedance

the bells

full moon

everywhere, everywhere

about a trip to Spain

Van Gogh

Vallejo

when the violets roar at the sun

the professionals

the 8 count concerto

an afternoon in February

crickets

the angel who pushed his wheelchair

the circus of death

the man?

Christmas poem to a man in jail

snake eyes?

my friends down at the corner:

smiling, shining, singing

Bruckner

this moment

one more good one

Part 2

you do it while you’re killing flies

the 12 hour night

plants which easily winter kills

the last poetry reading

probably so

assault

raw with love

wide and moving

demise

the pact

75 million dollars

butterflies

4 Christs

$180 gone

blue head of death

young men

the meaning of it all

guess who?

I want a mermaid

an unusual place

in this city now—

Captain Goodwine

morning love

an old jockey

hard times on Carlton Way

we needed him

Nana

poor Mimi

a boy and his dog

the dangerous ladies

sloppy love

winter: 44th year

Hollywood Ranch Market

rape

gone away

note left on the dresser by a lady friend:

legs

the artist

revolt in the ranks

life of the king

the silver mirror

hunchback

me and Capote

the savior: 1970

la femme finie

beast

artistic selfishness

my literary fly

memory

Carlton Way off Western Ave.

at the zoo

coke blues

nobody home

woman in the supermarket

fast track

hanging there on the wall

the hookers, the madmen and the doomed

looking for Jack

apprentices

38,000-to-one

a touch of steel

brown and solemn

time

nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen

the way it works

bright lights and serpents

mean and stingy

$100

this particular war

German bar

floor job

the icecream people

like a cherry seed in the throat

Part 3

the ordinary café of the world

on shaving

school days

neither a borrower nor a lender be

sometimes even putting a nickel into a parking meter feels good—

Mahler

fellow countryman

the young man on the bus stop bench

computer class

image

the crunch (2)

I’ll send you a postcard

bravo!

downtown

the blue pigeon

combat primer

thanks for that

they arrived in time

odd

an interlude

anonymity

what’s it all mean?

one-to-five

insanity

farewell my lovely

comments upon my last book of poesy:

a correction to a lady of poesy:

Beethoven conducted his last symphony while totally deaf

on the sidewalk and in the sun

what do they want?

I hear all the latest hit tunes

am I the only one who suffers thus?

on lighting a cigar

the cigarette of the sun

to lean back into it

dog fight 1990

I used to feel sorry for Henry Miller

locked in

wasted

Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission

slaughter

a vote for the gentle light

be alone

I inherit

another day

tabby cat

the gamblers

the crowd

trouble in the night

3 old men at separate tables

the singer

stuck with it

action on the corner

no guru

in this cage some songs are born

my movie

a new war

roll the dice

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By Charles Bukowski

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