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Riddle: Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain...
Riddle: I cannot be felt, seen or touched; Yet I can be found in everybody; My existence is always in debate; Yet I have my own style of music. What..
Riddle: There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine..
Riddle: A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have..
The Blackbirds Are Rough Today
lonely as a dry and used orchardspread over the earthfor use and surrender.shot down like an ex-pug sellingdailies on the corner.taken by tears..
© Charles Bukowski
Rain Or Shine
the vultures at the zoo(all three of them)sit very quietly in theircaged treeand belowon the groundare chunks of rotten meat.the vultures are..
© Charles Bukowski
Magical Mystery Tour
I am in this low-slung sports carpainted a deep, rich yellowdriving under an Italian sun.I have a British accent.I'm wearing dark shadesan expensive..
© Charles Bukowski
This
self-congratulatory nonsense as thefamous gather to applaud their seeminggreatnessyouwonder wherethe real ones arewhatgiant cavehides themasthe..
© Charles Bukowski
Hemingway Never Did This
I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on atrain and that they never were recovered.I can't match the agony of thisbut the other night I..
© Charles Bukowski
One Thirty-Six A.M.
I laugh sometimes when I think aboutsayCéline at a typewriteror Dostoevsky...or Hamsun...ordinary men with feet, ears, eyes,ordinary men with hair on..
© Charles Bukowski
The German Hotel
the German hotel was very strange and expensive and haddouble doors to the rooms, very thick doors, and it over-looked the park and the vasser tern..
© Charles Bukowski
Marina
majestic, majicinfinitemy little girl issunon the carpet-out the doorpicking a flower, ha!an old man,battle-wrecked,emerges from hischairand she..
© Charles Bukowski
Out Of The Arm Of One Love...
out of the arm of one loveand into the arms of anotherI have been saved from dying on the crossby a lady who smokes potwrites songs and storiesand is..
© Charles Bukowski
Now
I sit here on the 2nd floorhunched over in yellowpajamasstill pretending to bea writer.some damned gall,at 71,my brain cells eatenaway bylife.rows of..
© Charles Bukowski
The Worst And The Best
in the hospitals and jailsit's the worstin madhousesit's the worstin penthousesit's the worstin skid row flophousesit's the worstat poetry readingsat..
© Charles Bukowski
Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You . . .
we have everything and we have nothingand some men do it in churchesand some men do it by tearing butterfliesin halfand some men do it in Palm..
© Charles Bukowski
Hooray Say The Roses
hooray say the roses, today is blamesdayand we are red as blood.hooray say the roses, today is Wednesdayand we bloom wher soldiers felland lovers..
© Charles Bukowski
Love &Amp; Fame &Amp; Death
it sits outside my window nowlike and old woman going to market;it sits and watches me,it sweats nevouslythrough wire and fog and dog-barkuntil..
© Charles Bukowski
True Story
they found him walking along the freewayall red infronthe had taken a rusty tin canand cut off his sexualmachineryas if to say --see what you've done..
© Charles Bukowski
These Things
these things that we support most wellhave nothing to do with up,and we do with themout of boredom or fear or moneyor cracked intelligence;our circle..
© Charles Bukowski
Revolt In The Ranks
I have just spent one-hour-and-a-halfhandicapping tomorrow'scard.when am I going to get at the poems?well, they'll just have to waitthey'll have to..
© Charles Bukowski
The Shoelace
a woman, atire that’s flat, adisease, adesire: fears in front of you,fears that hold so stillyou can study themlike pieces on achessboard…it’s not..
© Charles Bukowski
The Great Slob
I was always a natural slobI liked to lay upon the bedin undershirt (stained, ofcourse) (and with cigaretteholes)shoes offbeerbottle in handtrying to..
© Charles Bukowski
Short Order
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading,she said.yes, yes? I asked.she's young and pretty, she said.and? I asked.she hated yourguts.
© Charles Bukowski