« Roll The Dice » by Charles Bukowski from The Computer Printout Poem by Oilibheir Álain Christie

This is the Urtext of the poem, recently retrieved from the author's personal computer. Written in 1991, three years before Bukowski's death, this poem was published posthumously in an altered (bowdlerized)  version in the collection " What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire" (1999) , five years after the poet's death.A third version was included in " Essential Bukowski: Poetry" (2016)  edited by Abel Debritto. This third version appears with very minor alterations from the original MS, much more faithful to the original than the one included in " What Matters Most…" This computer printout appears both at bukowski.net & bukowskiforum.com; twenty-eight years after its composition, this poem has not yet been published in book form in its original draft.This entry is not to remain under my name. I ask the moderators of PoemHunter.com to move it to Bukowski's works, with my thanks in advance.