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Born in August 16, 1920 / Died in March 9, 1994 / United States / English

Poems by Charles Bukowski

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Interview by a Guggenheim Recipient

... and then I realized that Whitman was the only true American, ...

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the weather is hot on the back of my watch

... I watched a crow-blast, one hundred farmers with one hundred shotguns ...

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a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore

... re right. but still she looked good to me, she still looked good, ...

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It Was Just A Little While Ago

... almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire ...

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German

... I scaled 6-foot back fences in a flash and was off through ...

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Close To Greatness

... Elizabeth's. then I met a woman who not only ...

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Goading the Muse

... volition? I decided then I should take a whole week ...

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Gas

... she'd let it go just as food was being served ...

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One Thirty-Six A.M.

... comes back drinks a glass of milk and thinks about ...

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2 Flies

... upon my head; the other one, the smaller one ...

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Hemingway Never Did This

... I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on a ...

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Nice Guy

... his wife. of course, everybody was sleeping with his ...

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Paris

... dreamed of bicycling through that ...

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The Trash Can

... the trash can. they're gone forever, no ...

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Beasts Bounding Through Time

... Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness ...