What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk

This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s.

1

my father and the bum

17

(1)

legs, hips and behind

18

(2)

igloo

20

(2)

the mice

22

(2)

my garden

24

(1)

legs and white thighs

25

(1)

Mademoiselle from Armentieres

26

(3)

my father's big-time fling

29

(2)

the bakers of 1935

31

(4)

the people

35

(1)

the pretty girl who rented rooms

36

(2)

too soon

38

(2)

canned heat?

40

(3)

Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939

43

(3)

scene from 1940:

46

(1)

my big moment

47

(3)

daylight saving time

50

(1)

the railroad yard

51

(1)

horseshit

52

(2)

man's best friend

54

(2)

the sensitive, young poet

56

(2)

hunger

58

(3)

the first one

61

(2)

the night I saw George Raft in Vegas

63

(2)

no title

65

(1)

too many blacks

66

(2)

white dog

68

(1)

blue beads and bones

69

(2)

ax and blade

71

(2)

some notes on Bach and Haydn

73

(3)

born to lose

76

(2)

Phillipe's 1950

78

(1)

in the lobby

79

(2)

he knows us all

81

(1)

victory!

82

(2)

more argument

84

(3)

wind the clock

87

(1)

what?

88

(1)

she comes from somewhere

89

(1)

lifedance

90

(1)

the bells

91

(2)

full moon

93

(1)

everywhere, everywhere

94

(1)

about a trip to Spain

95

(1)

Van Gogh

96

(2)

Vallejo

98

(1)

when the violets roar at the sun

99

(1)

the professionals

100

(2)

the 8 count concerto

102

(2)

an afternoon in February

104

(2)

crickets

106

(2)

the angel who pushed his wheelchair

108

(3)

the circus of death

111

(3)

the man?

114

(1)

Christmas poem to a man in jail

115

(4)

snake eyes?

119

(2)

my friends down at the corner:

121

(1)

smiling, shining, singing

122

(2)

Bruckner

124

(2)

this moment

126

(1)

one more good one

127

(6)

2

you do it while you're killing flies

133

(1)

the 12 hour night

134

(3)

plants which easily winter kills

137

(2)

the last poetry reading

139

(4)

probably so

143

(1)

assault

144

(4)

raw with love

148

(2)

wide and moving

150

(1)

demise

151

(2)

the pact

153

(2)

75 million dollars

155

(2)

butterflies

157

(2)

4 Christs

159

(3)

$180 gone

162

(2)

blue head of death

164

(2)

young men

166

(1)

the meaning of it all

167

(2)

guess who?

169

(1)

I want a mermaid

170

(2)

an unusual place

172

(2)

in this city now---

174

(3)

Captain Goodwine

177

(3)

morning love

180

(2)

an old jockey

182

(2)

hard times on Carlton Way

184

(2)

we needed him

186

(2)

Nana

188

(1)

poor Mimi

189

(3)

a boy and his dog

192

(2)

the dangerous ladies

194

(2)

sloppy love

196

(7)

winter: 44th year

203

(1)

Hollywood Ranch Market

204

(3)

rape

207

(4)

gone away

211

(2)

note left on the dresser by a lady friend:

213

(2)

legs

215

(2)

the artist

217

(2)

revolt in the ranks

219

(2)

life of the king

221

(2)

the silver mirror

223

(2)

hunchback

225

(2)

me and Capote

227

(3)

the savior: 1970

230

(3)

la femme finie

233

(1)

beast

234

(2)

artistic selfishness

236

(1)

my literary fly

237

(2)

memory

239

(2)

Carlton Way off Western Ave.

241

(2)

at the zoo

243

(1)

coke blues

244

(1)

nobody home

245

(2)

woman in the supermarket

247

(2)

fast track

249

(2)

hanging there on the wall

251

(2)

the hookers, the madmen and the doomed

253

(2)

looking for Jack

255

(2)

apprentices

257

(2)

38,000-to-one

259

(2)

a touch of steel

261

(2)

brown and solemn

263

(1)

time

264

(2)

nobody knows the trouble I've seen

266

(2)

the way it works

268

(2)

bright lights and serpents

270

(2)

mean and stingy

272

(2)

$100

274

(2)

this particular war

276

(1)

German bar

277

(1)

floor job

278

(2)

the icecream people

280

(2)

like a cherry seed in the throat

282

(3)

3

the ordinary cafe of the world

285

(2)

on shaving

287

(4)

school days

291

(2)

neither a borrower nor a lender be

293

(4)

sometimes even putting a nickel into a parking meter feels good---

297

(2)

Mahler

299

(1)

fellow countryman

300

(3)

the young man on the bus stop bench

303

(2)

computer class

305

(4)

image

309

(3)

the crunch (2)

312

(3)

I'll send you a postcard

315

(1)

bravo!

316

(2)

downtown

318

(2)

the blue pigeon

320

(1)

combat primer

321

(2)

thanks for that

323

(1)

they arrived in time

324

(2)

odd

326

(2)

an interlude

328

(2)

anonymity

330

(2)

what's it all mean?

332

(1)

one-to-five

333

(4)

insanity

337

(2)

farewell my lovely

339

(2)

comments upon my last book of poesy:

341

(2)

a correction to a lady of poesy:

343

(3)

Beethoven conducted his last symphony while totally deaf

346

(2)

on the sidewalk and in the sun

348

(2)

what do they want?

350

(2)

I hear all the latest hit tunes

352

(2)

am I the only one who suffers thus?

354

(4)

on lighting a cigar

358

(3)

the cigarette of the sun

361

(2)

to lean back into it

363

(2)

dog fight 1990

365

(2)

I used to feel sorry for Henry Miller

367

(2)

locked in

369

(3)

wasted

372

(2)

Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission

374

(1)

slaughter

375

(2)

a vote for the gentle light

377

(2)

be alone

379

(2)

I inherit

381

(3)

another day

384

(2)

tabby cat

386

(2)

the gamblers

388

(1)

the crowd

389

(2)

trouble in the night

391

(2)

3 old men at separate tables

393

(2)

the singer

395

(2)

stuck with it

397

(3)

action on the corner

400

(2)

no guru

402

(2)

in this cage some songs are born

404

(1)

my movie

405

(2)

a new war

407

(1)

roll the dice

408

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