On Love. Charles Bukowski

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      BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI

      The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)

      Post Office (1971)

      Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)

      South of No North (1973)

      Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973 (1974)

      Factotum (1975)

      Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977)

      Women (1978)

      You Kissed Lilly (1978)

      Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)

      Shakespeare Never Did This (1979)

      Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)

      Ham on Rye (1982)

      Bring Me Your Love (1983)

      Hot Water Music (1983)

      There’s No Business (1984)

      War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984 (1984)

      You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)

      The Movie: “Barfly” (1987)

      The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946–1966 (1988)

      Hollywood (1989)

      Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990)

      The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)

      Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960–1970 (1993)

      Pulp (1994)

      Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960s–1970s (Volume 2) (1995)

      Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (1996)

      Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems (1997)

      The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998)

      Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters 1978–1994 (Volume 3) (1999)

      What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire: New Poems (1999)

      Open All Night: New Poems (2000)

      The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems (2001)

      Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960–1967 (2001)

      Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems (2003)

      The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems (2004)

      Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)

      Come On In! (2006)

      The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007)

      The Pleasures of the Damned (2007)

      The Continual Condition (2009)

      On Writing (2015)

      On Cats (2015)

      On Love (2016)

      On Love

      CHARLES BUKOWSKI

      Edited by Abel Debritto

      First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

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      This digital edition first published in 2016 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © 2016 by Linda Lee Bukowski

      Photograph on page 33 courtesy of Marina Bukowski. All other photographs courtesy of Linda Lee Bukowski

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      First published in the USA by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins

      Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY, 10007

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78211 728 5

      eISBN 978 1 78211 729 2

      Contents

       mine

       layover

       the day I kicked a bankroll out the window

       I taste the ashes of your death

       love is a piece of paper torn to bits

       to the whore who took my poems

       shoes

       a real thing, a good woman

       one night stand

       the mischief of expiration

       love is a form of selfishness

       for Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough

       for Jane

       notice

       my real love in Athens

       sleeping woman

       a party here—machineguns, tanks, an army fighting against men on rooftops

       for the 18 months of Marina Louise

       poem for my daughter

       answer to a note found in the