One For The Shoeshine Man
Poem
Excerpt
One For The Shoeshine Man
the balance Is in the snails climbing the
Santa Monica cliffs;
the luck is in walking down Western Avenue
and having one of the girls from a massage...
Appears in Books
- The Pleasures of the Damned - 2007, pg. 482
- Love is a Dog From Hell - 1977, pg. 305
- Run With the Hunted - 1993
- On Love - 2016, pg. 83
- Essential Bukowski: Poetry - 2016, pg. 100
Appears in Magazines
- Los Angeles Free Press - no. 568, June 6-12 1975, pg. U