Burning in Water Drowning in Flame

2009·0.24 MB·english

by  Bukowski

CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Burning
in
Water
Drowning
in
Flame
for Steve Richmond
Table of Contents
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (Poems 1955-1963) 13
the tragedy of the leaves 15
to the whore who took my poems 16
the state of world affairs 17
for marilyn m. 18
the life of borodin 19
no charge 20
a literary romance 21
the twins 23
the day it rained at the los angeles county museum 25
2 p.m. beer 26
hooray say the roses 27
the sunday artist 28
old poet 29
the race 31
vegas 33
the house 35
side of the sun 37
the talkers 38
a pleasant afternoon in bed 39
the priest and the matador 41
love & fame & death 42
my father 43
the bird 44
the singular self 45
a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore 47
Crucifix in a Deathhand (Poems 1963-1965) 49
view from the screen 51
crucifix in a deathhand 52
grass 54
fuzz 55
no lady godiva 56
the workers 58
beans with garlic 62
mama 63
machineguns towers & timeclocks 64
something for the touts 67
sway with me 71
lack of almost everything 72
no. 6 73
don’t come around but if you do 74
startled into life like fire 76
stew 77
lilies in my brain 79
i am dead 82
like a violet in the snow 83
letter from too far 84
man in the sun 85
woman 86
like all the years wasted 87
they, all of them, know 89
a nice day 93
At Terror Street and Agony Way (Poems 1965-1968) 95
beerbottle 97
the body 98
k.o. 101
sunday before noon 102
7th race when the angels swung low and burned 104
on going out to get the mail 106
i wanted to overthrow the government 108
the girls 110
a note on rejection slips 111
true story 113
x-pug 115
class 116
living 118
the intellectual 121
shot of red-eye 123
i met a genius 127
poverty 128
to kiss the worms goodnight 130
john dillinger and le chasseur maudit 132
the flower lover 134
traffic ticket 135
a little sleep and peace of silence 137
he even looked like a nice guy 139
children in the sky 140
the weather is hot on the back of my watch 143
note to a lady who expected rupert brooke 145
the difference between a bad poet and a good one 147
the curtains are waving 149
for the mercy mongers 152
Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame (Poems 1972-1973) 153
now 155
the trash men 156
zoo 157
tv 158
lost 160
hot 161
love 163
burn and burn and burn 164
the way 165
out of the arms 166
death of an idiot 167
tonalities 169
hey, dolly 170
a poorly night 171
looking for a job 172
the 8 count 174
dogfight 176
letters 177
yes yes 178
eddie and eve 179
the fisherman 181
warm asses 182
what’s the use of a title? 183
the tigress 184
the catch 185
wax job 187
some people 190
father, who art in heaven 191
nerves 192
the rent’s high too 193
laugh literary 195
deathbed blues 196
charles 198
on the circuit 200
my friend, andre 201
i was glad 202
trouble with spain 204
wet night 206
we, the artists 208
i can’t stay in the same room with that woman 210
charisma 212
the sound of human lives 214
save the pier 216
burned 219
hell hath no fury 220
pull a string, a puppet moves 221
tougher than corned beef hash 222
voices 223
straight on through 226
dreamlessly 229
palm leaves 232
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