The Roominghouse Madrigals

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Authors: Charles Bukowski

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CHARLES BUKOWSKI

THE ROOMINGHOUSE MADRIGALS

EARLY SELECTED POEMS 1946-1966

Table of Contents

22,000 Dollars in 3 Months

On Seeing an Old Civil War Painting…

What to Do with Contributor’s Copies?

It’s Not Who Lived Here

O, We Are the Outcasts

Poem for My 43rd Birthday

The Genius of the Crowd

The Simplicity of Everything in Viet Nam

The Night They Took Whitey

The Japanese Wife

Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs

On a Night You Don’t Sleep

An Empire of Coins

On Going Back to the Street…

The Dogs of Egypt

Old Man, Dead in a Room

Love Is a Piece of Paper Torn to Bits

Big Bastard with a Sword

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter

Not Quite So Soon

I Wait in the White Rain

I Cannot Stand Tears

The Day I Kicked Away a Bankroll

A Kind of Lecture…

Hello, Willie Shoemaker

The Literary Life

Death Wants More Death

10 Lions and the End of the World

The Blackbirds Are Rough Today

A Word on the Quick and Modern Poem-Makers

I Have Lived in England

Farewell, Foolish Objects

A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself

Interviewed by a Guggenheim Recipient

One Night Stand

Poem to a Most Affectionate Lady

Parts of an Opera, Parts of a Guitar…

Letter from the North

The Best Way to Get Famous Is to Run Away

The Kings Are Gone

Reprieve and Admixture

The Swans Walk My Brain…

A Farewell Thing While Breathing

Sad-Eyed Mules of Men

A Conversation on Morality…

Notations from a Muddled Indolence

I Don’t Need a Bedsheet with Slits for Eyes…

3:30 A.M. Conversation

Cows in Art Class

Freedom: The Unmolested Eagle of Myself

Singing is Fire

The Sun Wields Mercy

On the Failure of a Poet

The Man with the Hot Nose

Hangover and Sick Leave

Mercy, Wherever You Are…

It’s Nothing to Laugh About

With Vengeance Like a Tiger Crawls

Itch, Come and Gone

2 Outside, As Bones Break in My Kitchen

Saying Goodbye to Love

You Smoke a Cigarette

Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men

…American Express, Athens, Greece

One Hundred and Ninety-Nine Pounds…

I Write This Upon the Last Drink’s Hammer

When the Berry Bush Dies…

Face While Shaving

Somebody Always Breaking My Dainty Solitude…

Thank God for Alleys

The Millionaire

Dow Jones: Down

A Minor Impulse to Complain

I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet

The Mexican Girls

Conversation in a Cheap Room

I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenues of the Dead

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