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Index
Cover
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
Part 1
So You Want To Be a Writer?
My Secret Life
The Column
Commerce
The Mexican Fighters
This Dog
The Great Escape
A Quick One
The Old Anarchist
And I Still Won‘t Vote
Just Trying To Do a Good Deed
One Step Removed
My Life As a Sitcom
A Mechanical Lazarus
My God
After the Sandstorm
Carry On!
Straw Hats
Drink and Wait
Basking In the Evil Light
What Can I Do?
Out of the Sickroom and Into the White Blazing Sun
Temporal Ease
You Never Liked Me
Our Big Day At the Movies
About Competition
Fingernails
Iron
Extraterrestrial Visitor
Small Talk
Too Sweet
Work-Fuck Problems
Observations on Music
Fly Boy
Unblinking Grief
Houses and Dark Streets
The Joke Is on the Sun
Part 2
Like a Polluted River Flowing
Girlfriends
Escape 1942
A Strange Horse Poem
The Longest Snake In the World
The Niceties
Time To Water the Plants and Feed the Cat
I‘m Flattered
Neither Shakespeare Nor Mickey Spillane
Show Business
Pop!
The Interview
Re-Union
Genius Unfettered
Bob
Bearclaw Morning
Death and Transfiguration
Warriors In This Place
A Sickness?
A Fine Night
Riots
Venice Beach
The Con Job
Looking Back
The Love Poems of Catullus
Dream Girl
Empties
The Landlady
About the Mail
Have You Ever Pulled a Lion‘s Tail?
Who Needs It?
Tight Black Pants
The Weirdest Day
Burning Bright
The Death of a Hero
Hooked
Found Poems
Runaway Inflation
The Significance Was Obscure
Cracking the Odds
Working Through It All
Giving Thanks
Los Angeles
2,294
Why Do You Write So Many Poems About Death?
Evidence
Part 3
A Wise Ass
The Dressmaker
Lunch In Beverly Hills
She Was Really Mad
A Tree, a Road, a Toad
In One Ear and Out the Other
Excuses
Bygone Days
In a Lady‘s Bedroom
Model Friend
The Invitation
Hollywood Hustle
Buddha Chinaski Says
Like Lazarus
Soft and Fat Like Summer Roses
In Transit
“Dear Mr. Chinaski”
Silverfish
The Popularity Kid
Death and White Glue
Fun Times: 1930
My Bully
Ow Ow Ow
The Singers
The March
The Way Things Are
Words For You
Strictly Bullshit
Written Before I Got One
Straight On
Remember This
Now See Here
Little Poem
Part 4
Gertrude Up the Stairway, 1943
Where Was I?
Sloppy Day
Note on the Telephone
At the Edge
Heads Without Faces, Seen In All the Places
Coming Awake
The Simple Truth
Here and Now
Crazy World
Good Stuff
Respite
The Horse Player
Displaced
In Search of a Hero
Escapade
Burning, Burning
Upon Reading an Interview with a Best-Selling Novelist
Nothing To It
This Place
A.D. 701–762
Regrets of a Sort
Too Young
Listening To the Radio At 1:35 A.M.
Unclassical Symphony
Dinner For Free
A Song From the 70’s
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War Some of the Time
At Last
Misbegotten Paradise
My Big Night on the Town
Nobody But You
Like a Dolphin
About the Author
Other Books by Charles Bukowski
Copyright
About the Publisher
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