What Matters Most Is How Well You by Bukowski, Charles -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Dedication Contents Part 1

my father and the bum legs, hips and behind igloo the mice my garden legs and white thighs Mademoiselle from Armentières my father’s big-time fling the bakers of 1935 the people the pretty girl who rented rooms too soon canned heat? Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939 scene from 1940: my big moment daylight saving time the railroad yard horseshit man’s best friend the sensitive, young poet hunger the first one the night I saw George Raft in Vegas no title too many blacks white dog blue beads and bones ax and blade some notes on Bach and Haydn born to lose Phillipe’s 1950 in the lobby he knows us all victory! more argument wind the clock what? she comes from somewhere lifedance the bells full moon everywhere, everywhere about a trip to Spain Van Gogh Vallejo when the violets roar at the sun the professionals the 8 count concerto an afternoon in February crickets the angel who pushed his wheelchair the circus of death the man? Christmas poem to a man in jail snake eyes? my friends down at the corner: smiling, shining, singing Bruckner this moment one more good one

Part 2

you do it while you’re killing flies the 12 hour night plants which easily winter kills the last poetry reading probably so assault raw with love wide and moving demise the pact 75 million dollars butterflies 4 Christs $180 gone blue head of death young men the meaning of it all guess who? I want a mermaid an unusual place in this city now— Captain Goodwine morning love an old jockey hard times on Carlton Way we needed him Nana poor Mimi a boy and his dog the dangerous ladies sloppy love winter: 44th year Hollywood Ranch Market rape gone away note left on the dresser by a lady friend: legs the artist revolt in the ranks life of the king the silver mirror hunchback me and Capote the savior: 1970 la femme finie beast artistic selfishness my literary fly memory Carlton Way off Western Ave. at the zoo coke blues nobody home woman in the supermarket fast track hanging there on the wall the hookers, the madmen and the doomed looking for Jack apprentices 38,000-to-one a touch of steel brown and solemn time nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen the way it works bright lights and serpents mean and stingy $100 this particular war German bar floor job the icecream people like a cherry seed in the throat

Part 3

the ordinary café of the world on shaving school days neither a borrower nor a lender be sometimes even putting a nickel into a parking meter feels good— Mahler fellow countryman the young man on the bus stop bench computer class image the crunch (2) I’ll send you a postcard bravo! downtown the blue pigeon combat primer thanks for that they arrived in time odd an interlude anonymity what’s it all mean? one-to-five insanity farewell my lovely comments upon my last book of poesy: a correction to a lady of poesy: Beethoven conducted his last symphony while totally deaf on the sidewalk and in the sun what do they want? I hear all the latest hit tunes am I the only one who suffers thus? on lighting a cigar the cigarette of the sun to lean back into it dog fight 1990 I used to feel sorry for Henry Miller locked in wasted Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission slaughter a vote for the gentle light be alone I inherit another day tabby cat the gamblers the crowd trouble in the night 3 old men at separate tables the singer stuck with it action on the corner no guru in this cage some songs are born my movie a new war roll the dice

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