Old Man, Dead In A Room (circa 1961)
Poem (circa 1961)
Excerpt
Old Man, Dead In A Room
this thing upon me is not death
but it's as real,
and as landlords full of maggots
pound for rent...
Appears in Books
- A Bukowski Sampler - 1969, pg. 36
- Penguin Modern Poets - 1969, pg. 24
- The Roominghouse Madrigals - 1988, pg. 53
- Run With the Hunted - 1962, pg. 28
- Essential Bukowski: Poetry - 2016, pg. 19
- It Catches My Heart In Its Hands - 1963, pg. 95
Appears in Magazines
- South Bay - vol. 4, no. 8, November 1981
- Specimen 73 - 1973
- Outsider - no. 3, 1963, pg. 71
- Outsider - no. 1, 1961, pg. 52
- ONTHEBUS - no. 6, 1990
- Florida Education - vol. 42, no. 9, May 1965
- Thinking Of The Lost World - 1980, pg. 22