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The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems Come On In! Women Ham on Rye Post Office Factotum Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems Sunlight Here I Am Septuagenerian Stew The Captain is Out to Lunch Shakespeare Never Did This Love is a Dog From Hell Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame Barfly - The Movie Living On Luck (Living on Luck Vol. 2) Bring Me Your Love Screams from the Balcony The Last Night of the Earth Poems Bone Palace Ballet Hot Water Music You Get So Alone at Times Betting on the Muse The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 Pulp What Matters Most is How Well You War All the Time Play the Piano Factotum South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life Open All Night The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps Mockingbird Wish Me Luck Beerspit Night and Cursing Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A Hollywood Tales of Ordinary Madness The Most Beautiful Woman In Town And Other Stories Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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People come to my door-too many of them really-and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away. . .
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