Beerspit Night and Cursing (44 page)

V: Well, so here we go…once again to the library..to attempt to read once again…Tolstoy’s
WAR & PEACE
. Maybe the old boy knew something & stuck it in near the end; the
END
, of the book. This time we’ll read it backwards, & let the
lover
pay the rent as we ride off under watchet skies…endure, endure Beelzebub & Atlantis..the Earl of Chesterfield wd have scoffed into a pink hanky at the animalistic infidelity of our soulmares. I still keep thinking, the as the wheels turn, & the library nears..I shda sure as shit left-hook’d him, belly-deep, & when he bent, the old right, uppercut, & then the knee to the magic nuts..but wait..
TOLSTOY, TOLSTOY
%)
O SHIT
#$%
TOLSTOY
!!!

1. This in case you cant make it out..is a jock beating hell out of a horse, down the stretch. He’s supposed to win. They’re all supposed to
WIN
. But sometimes there are 12 h0rses in a race, so every body gets a beating, including the winner; but wait…I lost 85$ today, but I still think horses might be good for something & beatings too, but right now I am listening to:
SHEEP MAY SAFELY GRAZE
by Bach.

2. This is a man beating hell out of the subspecies. In California a common-law wife owns one half of what you have after one year of being under a common roof. Even if you dont own anything. I think this is a vicious law.
We’re never gonna cross the Jordan at this rate.
Aut Caesar aut nullus…why fk around?

Bukowski contemplating his future..We do not expect pity here in the dirty socks & the unwashed of the mind; but sometimes thinking is a game wherein the hounds bound ahead of the fox, & it’s better in a downpour of padlock & silence; or if this is too fancy…it’s better sometimes to get drunk & fall down among the old racing forms & love letters # than attempt to be C.P. Snow or Lionel Trilling…

####### Pound and Hux argueing hell outs each other at St. Liz.
    They both knew St. Liz was nothing and #### Pound and #### Hux wuz something…
    This was a moment in history only known to the gods, and god damm those…the jailors, the white steeples and domes of Liberty; god damm those who let Van Gogh take life out of the world with a borrowed shotgun, and #3 Melpomene is the muse of tragedy, and America is tradgedy without muse, and I am dying like a yellow leaf in a shaking wind…
    I do, suppose tho, that we might be exaggerating a little. It is our lot to make sounds in a vacumn.
    And drawings. And darlings in the dawn.

Adams, John

Agenda

Aiken, Conrad

Alaric

Allen, Garth

American Mercury

Anderson, Chester

Anderson, Sherwood

Applebaum, Beverly

Apollonius

Auden, W. H.,

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Bacigalupo, Massimo

Bacon, Sir Francis

Baker, Jane Cooney

Barker, George

Barnball (editor)

Barrymore, John

Bartlett, Elizabeth

Bartók, Béla

Baruch, Bernard

Baudelaire, Charles

Beckmeyer, Rick

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Behan, Brendan

Bellow, Saul

Bentley, Wilder

Blake, William

Blazek, Douglas

Borodin, Alexander

Botticelli, Sandro

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Boyle, Kay

Brailowsky, Alexander

Brahms, Johannes

Brando, Marlon

Breakthru

Brontë, Emily

Brookhauser, Frank

Broyard, Anatole

Bryan, John

Buddha

Bukowski, Charles—
BOOKS
:

All the Assholes in the World and Mine

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard

Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts

Crucifix in a Deathhand

Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail

Ham on Rye

It Catches My Heart in Its Hands

Longshot Pomes for Broke Players

Poems Written before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window

Post Office

Run with the Hunted

A Signature of Charles Bukowski Poetry

Charles Bukowski—
POEMS
:

“And the Moon and the Stars and the World,”

“Antony,”

“The Ants,”

“The Best Way to Get Famous Is to Run Away,”

“Bring Down the Beams,”

“Candidate Middle of Left-Right Center,”

“Conversation in a Cheap Room,”

“Conversation on a Telephone,”

“The Day I Kicked Away a Bankroll,”

“Death of a Roach,”

“Death Wants More Death,”

“A Disorganized Poem on a Disorganized Day,”

“Down thru the Marching,”

“Drunk Again and Wondering, Wondering,”

“Fleg,”

“Hello, Willie Shoemaker,”

“Hooray Say the Roses,”

“A Horse on Fire,”

“I Get All the Breaks,”

“The Japanese Wife,”

“Layover,”

“Letter from the North,”

“The Life of Borodin,”

“A Literary Romance,”

“The Loser,”

“Not with the Sunburnt Fury of a Whitman,”

“Old Number 9,”

“Our Bread Is Blessed and Damned,”

“The Paper on the Floor,”

“Parts of an Opera,”

“Pay Your Rent or Get Out,”

“Peace,”

“Poem for Liz,”

“Poem for My Little Dog Who Also Growls Quite Well,”

“Poem for Personnel Managers,”

“Prayer for Broken-Handed Lovers,”

“The Priest and the Matador,”

“Red Bricks in My Eyes,”

“Remains,”

“Riot,”

“Scaled Like a Fish,”

“The Sex-Obsessed Ladies Walking by Me after Work,”

“So Much for the Knifers,”

“The State of World Affairs,”

“The Stupid Are Best at the Cruelties,”

“The Sun Wields Mercy,”

“Thank God for Alleys,”

“To the Whore Who Took My Poems,”

“The Tragedy of the Leaves,”

“Truth’s a Hell of a Word,”

“Vegas,”

“What a Man I Was,”

“When Hugo Wolf Went Mad,”

“Where the Hell Would Chopin Be?”

“Winter Comes in a Lot of Places in August,” 257

Bukowski, Henry (CB’s father)

Bukowski, Marina Louise

Bunting, Basil

Burnett, Whit

Burns, Robert

Capone, Al

Carpenter, Humphrey

Cassady, Neal

Castro, Fidel

Cavalcanti, Guido

Cayce, Edgar

Chamberlain, Safford

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chao Tze-chiang

Charles, Ray

Chekhov, Anton

Chesterfield, Earl of

Chirico, Giorgio de

Chopin, Frédéric

Churchill, Winston

Cocteau, Jean

Coke, Sir Edward

Coleridge, Samuel T.

Confucius

Cookson, William

Cooney, Seamus

Corneille, Pierre

Corrington, John William

Corso, Gregory

Crane, Hart

Crews, Judson

Cummings, E. E.

Cuscaden, R.R.

Dante Alighieri

Dean, Abner

Dean, Frances Elizabeth

Debussy, Claude

Degas, Edgar

De la Mare, Walter

Deren, Maya

Dillinger, John

Disraeli, Benjmain

Donne, John

Doolittle, Hilda.
See
H.D.

Dos Passos, John

Dostoevski, Fyodor

Dreiser, Theodore

Dryden, John

Earth

Eberhart, Richard

Edge

Eight Pager

Einstein, Albert

Einstein, Charles

Eliot, T. S.

Epos

Ernie; see Walker, E. P.

Esquire

Evidence

Fante, John

Fate

Faulkner, William

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Fett, Heinrich

Fett, Katharina

Flory, Wendy Stallard

Fort, Olivia

Franck, César

Frobenius, Leo

Frost, Robert

Frye, Barbara

Gaddis, William

Gandhi, Mahatma

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri

Gib;
see
Lee, Gilbert

Ginsberg, Allen

Giotto

Göring, Hermann

Gould, Stanley

Graves, Robert

Greco, El

Greek Anthology

Green, Pat

Grieg, Michael

Griffith, E. V.

Gumbiner, Richard

Handel, George Frederick

Harlequin

Harrison, Kay

Haydn, Peter

Hayter, Stanley W.

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Hearse

Heckel, Erich

Hedley, Leslie Woolf

Hemingway, Ernest

Henley, William

Hitchcock, George

Hitler, Adolf

Hokusai

Homer

Hope, Bob

Horace

Hung Tzu-ch’eng

Huxley, Aldous

Ibsen, Henrik

I Ching

Ingalls, Hunter

James, Henry

Jeffers, Robinson

Jefferson, Thomas

Johnson, Reid B.

Jones, James

Joyce, James

Kafka, Franz

Kaja (Kaye Johnson)

Kamo no Chomei

Karpman, Dr.

Kati

Kaufman, Bob

Keats, John

Kennedy, John F.

Kenyon Review

Kerouac, Jack

Kodály, Zoltán

Koestler, Arthur

Kuan-tzu

Lamantia, Philip

Larsen, Carl

Laughlin, James

Lawrence, D. H.

Layton, Irving

Lear, Edward

Lee, Gilbert (Gib; Po Li) and
passim

Lewis, C. Day

Lewis, Samuel F.

Lewis, Sinclair

Lewis, Wyndham

Light Year

Lincoln, Abraham

Literary, Artpress

Li Po

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Lovell, Dr.

Lowell, Robert

Luce, Henry R.

Lyden, Nora

MacLeish, Archibald

Mahler, Gustav

Mailer, Norman

Major, Clarence

Manolete

Markson, David

Martin, John

Martinelli, Ezio

Martinelli, Sheri—
PAINTINGS

AND CERAMICS
:

Ch’iang

Cleofe Santa

Daw oo

E.P
.

Giotto

Isis of the Two Kingdoms

Leucothoe

Lux in Diafana

Patria

Psyche

Ra Set

Princess Ra Set

Sibylla

St. Elizabeths Madonna

Undine

Ursula Benedetta

Sheri Martinelli—
OTHER WORKS
:

“The Beggar Girl of Queretaro,”

La Martinelli

“Mexico, his Thrust Renews,”

Maupassant, Guy de

May, James Boyer

McClure, Michael

McCullers, Carson

McMurtry, Larry

McNaughton, William

Mead (editor)

Melville, Herman

Mendelssohn, Felix

Menebroker, Ann

Michelangelo

Miller, Arthur

Miller, Henry

Miller, Roy

Milton, John

Miró, Joan

Monroe, Marilyn

Moore, Marianne

Morris, William

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mummy

Murakami, Masayoshi

Murry, John Middleton

Mussolini, Benito

Napoleon

Naked Ear

Nash, Jay Robert

Nation

New Yorker

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nijinsky, Waslaw

Nin, Anaïs

Norman, Charles

Notes from Underground

Odlin, Reno

Ole

O’Neill, Eugene

Orlovitz, Gil

Orlovsky, Peter

Outcry

Outsider

Ovid

Parker, Charlie

Pascin, Jules

Patanjali

Patchen, Kenneth

Pavlov, Ivan

Payne, Miles

Pearson, Norman Holmes

Petrarch

Picasso, Pablo

Pillin, William

Plato

Poe, Edgar Allan

Pollock, Jackson

Po Li;
see
Lee, Gilbert

Pope, Alexander

Portfolio

Pound, Ezra, and
passim

Pound, Omar

Pythagoras

Quagga

Quicksilver

Rachewiltz, Mary de

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Ransom, John Crowe

Rasputin, Grigori

Reed, Henry

Renoir, Pierre

Rexroth, Kenneth

Richard of St. Victor

Richardson, John

Richer, Arthur

Richmond, Steve

Rommel, Erwin

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rosenbaum, Veryl

Rossetti, Christina

Rutherford (editor)

Sacred Edicts

Sandburg, Carl

San Francisco Examiner

San Francisco Review

Sappho

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Satis

Saturday Evening Post

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schubert, Franz

Schumann, Robert

Shakespear, Dorothy

Shakespeare, William

Shapiro, Karl

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sherman, Jory

Sherman, Jory (
cont
.)

Sibelius, Jean

Sinclair, Upton

Skelton, John

Sloan, Willy

Snow, C.P.

Snyder, Gary

Southern Review

Spann, Marcella

Spender, Stephen

Stancioff family

Steiger, Rod

Stein, Gertrude

Steppenwolf

Stevens, Wallace

Stock, Noel

Stock, Robert

Story

Swabey, Henry

Swedenborg, Emanuel

Swinburne, Algernon C.

Targets

Tate, Allen

Taylor, Courtney

Tchaikovsky, Peter

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

Terrell, Carroll F.

Theobald, John

Theroux, Alexander

Thomas, Dylan

Thomas, John

Thompson, Francis

Thorne, Evelyn

Thurber, James

Today

Tolstoy, Leo

Trace

Treat, David

Trilling, Lionel

Tu Fu

Turgenev, Ivan

Van Gogh, Vincent

Vasquez-Amaral, José

Villon, François

Vivaldi, Antonio

Vogue

Wagner, Richard

Walker, E. P. (Ernie)

Wang, David

Wang Shou-jen

Wantling, William

Warren, Robert Penn

Watts, Alan

Webb, Jon, Jr.

Webb, Jon, Sr.

Whalen, Philip

Whistler, James

Whitman, Walt

Wilde, Oscar

Wilhelm, J.J.

Williams, William Carlos

Winchell, Walter

Winski, Norman

Winters, Ivor

Wolf, Hugo

Wordsworth, William

Wormwood Review

Yeats, William Butler

Yee, Tommy