Table of Contents

Foreword
22,000 in 3 months
On Seeing an Old Civil War Painting
What to do with Contributor's Copies
Brave Bull
It's Not Who Lived Here
O' We Are the Outcasts
Poem for my 43rd Birthday
The Genius of the Crowd
4:30 am
The Simplicity of Everything in Viet Nam
The Night They Took Whitey
The Japanese Wife
Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs
The Loser
On a Night You Don't Sleep
Empire of Coins
All I Know
On Going Back to the Street . . .
Anthony
Layover
The Dogs of Egypt
Old Man, Dead in a Room
Love is a Piece of Paper Torn to Bits
Big Bastard with a Sword
About my Very Tortured Friend, Peter
Not Quite So Soon
Counsel
I wait in the White Rain
Breakout
I Cannot Stand Tears
Horse on Fire
Mother and Son
The Day I Kicked Away A Bankroll
The Dogs
Imbecile Night
A Kind of Lecture . . .
The Gift
Object Lesson
Goldfish
Sleep
Hello, Willie Shoemaker
The Literary Life
Countryside
Death Wants More Death
Eat
Ten Lions and the End of the World
The Blackbirds Are Rough Today
A Word on the Quick and Modern Poem Makers
Seahorse
I Have Lived in England
Farewell, Foolish Objects
A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself
Fleg
Interviewed by a Guggenheim Recipient
Very
The Look
One Night Stand
Poem to a Most Affectionate Lady
Parts of an Opera, Parts of a Guitar
Letter from the North
The Best Way to Get Famous is to Run Away
The Kings Are Gone
Reprieve and Admixture
The Swans Walk My Brain
The End
A Farewell Thing While Breathing
Sad-eyed Mules of Men
Dear Friend
A Conversation on Mortality
Soirée
Notations from a Muddled Indolence
Nothing Subtle
I Don't Need a Bedsheet with Slits for Eyes
86'd
The Ants
Suicide
3:30 A.M. Conversation
Cows in Art Class
Practice
I Kneel
Freedom: The Unmolested Eagle of Myself
Singing is Fire
The Sun Wields Mercy
On the Failure of a Poet
The Beast
A Rat Rises
Pansies
The Man with the Hot Nose
Hangover and Sick Leave
Mercy, Wherever You Are
It's Nothing to Laugh About
35 Seconds
Regard Me
Like Vengeance When A Tiger Calls
Itch. Come and Gone
This
Two Outside, As Bones Break in my Kitchen
Saying Goodbye to Love
You Smoke a Cigarette
Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men
Everything
. . . American Express, Athens, Greece
One Hundred and Ninety-Nine Pounds . . .
I Write This Upon the Last Drinks Hammer
Poem for Liz
A New Place
Insomnia
Wrong Number
When the Berry Bush Dies
Face While Shaving
9 Rings
Somebody Always Breaking my Dainty Solitude . . .
Thank God for Alleys
The Millionaire
Dow Jones: Down
As I Lay Dying
A Minor Impulse to Complain
Buffalo Bill
Experience
I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
The Mexican Girls
The New Place
Conversation in a Cheap Room
I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenues of the Dead
Winter Comes to a Lot of Places in August
Bring Down the Beams
Reunion
Fragile!
I Am With the Roots of Flowers
Monday Beach, Cold Day
The High-rise of the New World
The Gypsies Near Del Mar
6 A.M.
A Trick to Dull our Bleeding
Rose, Rose
Spain Sits Like a Hidden Flower in My Coffeepot
Thermometer
Eaten by Butterflies
Destroying Beauty
About the Author
Other Books by Charles Bukowski
Cover
Copyright
About the Publishers