Poeticous Logo
en
English Español Français Italiano
Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Marina

majestic, majic
infinite
my little girl is
sun
on the carpet—
out the door
picking a flower, ha!
an old man,
battle—wrecked,
emerges from his
chair
and she looks at me
but only sees
love,
ha!, and I become
quick with the world
and love right back
just like I was meant
to do.

#Americans #XXCentury

1
1
Enjoyed this read? Treat us to a coffee!.
Your help allows us to exist.
Liked or faved by...
Other works by Charles Bukowski...
Goading the Muse

this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time
A 340 Dollar Horse and a Hundred Dollar Whore

don’t ever get the idea I am a poe… at the racetrack any day half drun… betting quarters, sidewheelers and… but let me tell you, there are som… who go where the money goes, and s…
 1
the 1930s

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?
, by Vlah Dumitru
The Soldier, His Wife and the Bum

I was a bum in San Francisco but… to go to a symphony concert along… and the music was good but somethi… audience was not and something about the orchestra
 1
 19
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, by John Martin
Finish

We are like roses that have never… bloom when we should have bloomed… it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
 4
The High-Rise of the New World

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power
Big Night on the Town

drunk on the dark streets of some… it’s night, you’re lost, where’s y… room? you enter a bar to find yourself, order scotch and water.
 1
Women: 67

“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...
Ham on Rye: 11

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...
metamorphosis

a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed
 1
something’s knocking at the door

a great white light dawns across t… continent as we fawn over our failed traditi… often kill to preserve them or sometimes kill just to kill.
a literary discussion

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,
No Lady Godiva

she came to my place drunk riding a deer up on the front porc… so many women want to save the wor… but can’t keep their own kitchens… but me...
girl on the escalator

as I go to the escalator young fellow and a lovely young gi… are ahead of me. her pants, her blouse are skintigh… as we ascend
Beerbottle

a very miraculous thing just happe… my beerbottle flipped over backwar… and landed on its bottom on the fl… and I have set it upon the table t… but the photos were not so lucky t…
 1



Top