Read Burning in Water, Drowing in Flame Online
Authors: Charles Bukowski
for Steve Richmond
Author’s Introduction
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (Poems 1955-1963)
the tragedy of the leaves
to the whore who took my poems
the state of world affairs
for marilyn m.
the life of borodin
no charge
a literary romance
the twins
the day it rained at the los angeles county museum
2 p.m. beer
hooray say the roses
the sunday artist
old poet
the race
vegas
the house
side of the sun
the talkers
a pleasant afternoon in bed
the priest and the matador
love & fame & death
my father
the bird
the singular self
a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
Crucifix in a Deathhand (Poems 1963-1965)
view from the screen
crucifix in a deathhand
grass
fuzz
no lady godiva
the workers
beans with garlic
mama
machineguns towers & timeclocks
something for the touts
sway with me
lack of almost everything
no. 6
don’t come around but if you do
startled into life like fire
stew
lilies in my brain
i am dead
like a violet in the snow
letter from too far
man in the sun
woman
like all the years wasted
they, all of them, know
a nice day
At Terror Street and Agony Way (Poems 1965-1968)
beerbottle
the body
k.o.
sunday before noon
7th race when the angels swung low and burned
on going out to get the mail
i wanted to overthrow the government
the girls
a note on rejection slips
true story
x-pug
class
living
the intellectual
shot of red-eye
i met a genius
poverty
to kiss the worms goodnight
john dillinger andle chasseur maudit
the flower lover
traffic ticket
a little sleep and peace of silence
he even looked like a nice guy
children in the sky
the weather is hot on the back of my watch
note to a lady who expected rupert brooke
the difference between a bad poet and a good one
the curtains are waving
for the mercy mongers
Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame (Poems 1972-1973)
now
the trash men