Charles Bukowski Poems

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
...

each man must realize
that it can all disappear very
quickly:
the cat, the woman, the job,
...

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
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I pick up the skirt,
I pick up the sparkling beads
in black,
this thing that moved once
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he drank wine all night of the
28th, and he kept thinking of her:
the way she walked and talked and loved
the way she told him things that seemed true
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naked along the side of the house,
8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil
over my body, Jesus, have I come
to this?
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you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very little
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during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
...

It's never quite right, he said, the way people look,
the way the music sounds, the way the words are
written.
It's never quite right, he said, all the things we are
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call it the greenhouse effect or whatever
but it just doesn't rain like it used to.
I particularly remember the rains of the
depression era.
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