The Roominghouse Madrigals电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Foreword

22,000 Dollars In 3 Months

On Seeing An Old Civil War Painting...

What to Do with Contributor's Copies?

Brave Bull

It's Not Who Lived Here

O, We Are the Outcasts

Poem for My 43rd Birthday

The Genius Of The Crowd

4:30 A.M.

The Simplicity of Everything in Viet Nam

The Night They Took Whitey

The Japanese Wife

Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs

The Loser

On a Night You Don't Sleep

An Empire of Coins

All I Know

On Going Back to the Street...

Anthony

Layover

The Dogs of Egypt

Old Man, Dead in a Room

Love Is a Piece of Paper Torn to Bits

Big Bastard with a Sword

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter

Not Quite So Soon

Counsel

I Wait in the White Rain

Breakout

I Cannot Stand Tears

Horse on Fire

Mother and Son

The Day I Kicked Away a Bankroll

The Dogs

Imbecile Night

A Kind of Lecture...

The Gift

Object Lesson

Goldfish

Sleep

Hello, Willie Shoemaker

The Literary Life

Countryside

Death Wants More Death

Eat

10 Lions and the End of the World

The Blackbirds Are Rough Today

A Word on the Quick and Modern Poem

Seahorse

I Have Lived in England

Farewell, Foolish Objects

A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself

Fleg

Interviewed by a Guggenheim Recipient

Very

The Look:

One Night Stand

Poem to a Most Affectionate Lady

Parts of an Opera, Parts of a Guitar...

Letter from the North

The Best Way to Get Famous Is to Run Away

The Kings Are Gone

Reprieve and Admixture

The Swans Walk My Brain...

The End

A Farewell Thing While Breathing

Sad-Eyed Mules of Men

Dear Friend

A Conversation on Morality...

Soiree

Notations from a Muddled Indolence

Nothing Subtle

I Don't Need a Bedsheet with Slits for Eyes...

86'd

The Ants

Suicide

3:30 A.M. Conversation

Cows in Art Class

Practice

I Kneel

Freedom: The Unmolested Eagle of Myself

Singing is Fire

The Sun Wields Mercy

On the Failure of a Poet

The Beast

A Rat Rises

Pansies

The Man with the Hot Nose

Hangover and Sick Leave

Mercy, Wherever You Are...

It's Nothing to Laugh About

35 Seconds

Regard Me

With Vengeance Like a Tiger Crawls

Itch, Come and Gone

This

2 Outside, As Bones Break in My Kitchen

Saying Goodbye to Love

You Smoke a Cigarette

Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men

Everything

...American Express, Athens, Greece

One Hundred and Ninety-Nine Pounds...

I Write This Upon the Last Drink's Hammer

Poem for Liz

A Nice Place

Insomnia

Wrong Number

When the Berry Bush Dies...

Face While Shaving

9 Rings

Somebody Always Breaking My Dainty Solitude...

Thank God for Alleys

The Millionaire

Dow Jones: Down

As I Lay Dying

A Minor Impulse to Complain

Buffalo Bill

Experience

I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet

The Mexican Girls

The New Place

Conversation in a Cheap Room

I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenues of the Dead

Winter Comes to a Lot of Places in August

Bring Down the Beams

Reunion

Fragile!

I Am with the Roots of Flowers

Monday Beach, Cold Day

The High-Rise of the New World

The Gypsies Near Del Mar

6 A.M.

A Trick to Dull Our Bleeding

Rose, Rose

Spain Sits Like a Hidden Flower in My Coffeepot

Thermometer

Eaten by Butterflies

Destroying Beauty

About the Author

By Charles Bukowski

Copyright

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