The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (Table of Contents)

Table of Contents Foreword 22,000 in 3 months On Seeing an Old Civil War Painting What to do with Contributor's Copies Brave Bull It's Not Who Lived Here O' We Are the Outcasts Poem for my 43rd Birthday The Genius of the Crowd 4:30 am The Simplicity of Everything in Viet Nam The Night They Took Whitey The Japanese Wife Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs The Loser On a Night You Don't Sleep Empire of Coins All I Know On Going Back to the Street . . . Anthony Layover 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 Counsel I wait in the White Rain Breakout I Cannot Stand Tears Horse on Fire Mother and Son The Day I Kicked Away A Bankroll The Dogs Imbecile Night A Kind of Lecture . . . The Gift Object Lesson Goldfish Sleep Hello, Willie Shoemaker The Literary Life Countryside Death Wants More Death Eat Ten Lions and the End of the World The Blackbirds Are Rough Today A Word on the Quick and Modern Poem Makers Seahorse I Have Lived in England Farewell, Foolish Objects A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself Fleg Interviewed by a Guggenheim Recipient Very The Look 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 The End A Farewell Thing While Breathing Sad-eyed Mules of Men Dear Friend A Conversation on Mortality Soirée Notations from a Muddled Indolence Nothing Subtle I Don't Need a Bedsheet with Slits for Eyes 86'd The Ants Suicide 3:30 A.M. Conversation Cows in Art Class Practice I Kneel Freedom: The Unmolested Eagle of Myself Singing is Fire The Sun Wields Mercy On the Failure of a Poet The Beast A Rat Rises Pansies The Man with the Hot Nose Hangover and Sick Leave Mercy, Wherever You Are It's Nothing to Laugh About 35 Seconds Regard Me Like Vengeance When A Tiger Calls Itch. Come and Gone This Two Outside, As Bones Break in my Kitchen Saying Goodbye to Love You Smoke a Cigarette Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men Everything . . . American Express, Athens, Greece One Hundred and Ninety-Nine Pounds . . . I Write This Upon the Last Drinks Hammer Poem for Liz A New Place Insomnia Wrong Number When the Berry Bush Dies Face While Shaving 9 Rings Somebody Always Breaking my Dainty Solitude . . . Thank God for Alleys The Millionaire Dow Jones: Down As I Lay Dying A Minor Impulse to Complain Buffalo Bill Experience I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet The Mexican Girls The New Place Conversation in a Cheap Room I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenues of the Dead Winter Comes to a Lot of Places in August Bring Down the Beams Reunion Fragile! I Am With the Roots of Flowers Monday Beach, Cold Day The High-rise of the New World The Gypsies Near Del Mar 6 A.M. A Trick to Dull our Bleeding Rose, Rose Spain Sits Like a Hidden Flower in My Coffeepot Thermometer Eaten by Butterflies Destroying Beauty About the Author Other Books by Charles Bukowski Cover Copyright About the Publishers