Poeticous Logo
en
English Español Français Italiano
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, by John Martin
Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Finish

We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting

#Americans #XXCentury

2
4
Enjoyed this read? Treat us to a coffee!.
Your help allows us to exist.
Liked or faved by...
Other works by Charles Bukowski...
the area of pause

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…
Self-portrait, by Albrecht Dürer
The Strongest of the Strange

you won’t see them often for wherever the crowd is they are not. those odd ones, not
 5
 53
The Flower Lover

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
the pleasures of the damned

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,
My First Affair With That Older Woman

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
Tv

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
song

Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.
Whats the Use of a Title?

They don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope wh… ever... they rip their arms off,
 1
 3
Post Office. Chapter I: 2

So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...
you do it while you're killing flies

Bach, I said, he had 20 children. he played the horses during the da… he f—ed at night and drank in the mornings. he wrote music in between.
 2
something about a woman

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
Dreamlessly

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows
I can’t stay in the same room with that woman for five minutes

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
Ham on Rye: 25

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...
Burn and Burn and Burn

I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,



Top