Charles Bukowski Poems

the lady has me temporarily off the bottle
and now the pecker stands up
better.
however, things change overnight--
...

was a truly amazing man
he pretended to be
rich
even though we lived on beans and mush and weenies
...

too much too little

too fat
too thin
...

sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think,
I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside
remembering all the times you've felt that way, and
you walk to the bathroom, do your toilet, see that face
...

when I look back now

at the abuse I took from
...

I read last Saturday in the
redwoods outside of Santa Cruz
and I was about 3/4's finished
when I heard a long high scream
...

she was hot, she was so hot
I didn't want anybody else to have her,
and if I didn't get home on time
...

the history of melancholia
includes all of us.

me, I writhe in dirty sheets
while staring at blue walls
...

a girlfriend came in
built me a bed
scrubbed and waxed the kitchen floor
scrubbed the walls
...