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America by Claude McKay
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my..
Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table by Claude McKay
Alfonso is a handsome bronze-hued lad
Of subtly-changing and surprising parts;
His moods are sto..
After the Winter by Claude McKay
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning’s white
The shivering birds be..
Africa by Claude McKay
The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light,
The sciences were sucklings at thy breast;
W..
Adolescence by Claude McKay
There was a time when in late afternoon
The four-o’clocks would fold up at day’s close
Pink-whit..
Absence by Claude McKay
Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving i..
A Red Flower by Claude McKay
Your lips are like a southern lily red,
Wet with the soft rain-kisses of the night,
In which the..
A Prayer by Claude McKay
’Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling;
I stumble as I fare along Earth’s way;..
A Memory of June by Claude McKay
When June comes dancing o’er the death of May,
With scarlet roses tinting her green breast,
And..
As The Sparrow by Charles Bukowski
To give life you must take life,
and as our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded s..
Alone With Everybody by Charles Bukowski
the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women b..
Another Day by Charles Bukowski
having the low down blues and going
into a restraunt to eat.
you sit at a table.
the waitress smi..
And The Moon And The Stars And The World by Charles Bukowski
Long walks at night--
that’s what good for the soul:
peeking into windows
watching tired house..
A Radio With Guts by Charles Bukowski
it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street
I used to get drunk
and throw the radio through the win..
Are You Drinking? by Charles Bukowski
washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook
out again
I write from the bed
as I did last
year.
..
A Man by Charles Bukowski
George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His
dinner dishes..
A Challenge To The Dark by Charles Bukowski
shot in the eye
shot in the brain
shot in the ass
shot like a flower in the dance
amazing..
A Following by Charles Bukowski
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m.
and it was a man from Denver:
"Chinaski, you got a following in
Den..
An Almost Made Up Poem by Charles Bukowski
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
they are small,..
As The Poems Go by Charles Bukowski
as the poems go into the thousands you
realize that you’ve created very
little.
it comes down to..
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