I THINK OF HEMINGWAY has only one minor difference:
only the world is ending
only the world ending
BEANS WITH GARLIC is very different:
beans with garlic
this is important enough;
to get your feelings down,
it is better than shaving
or cooking beans with garlic.
it is the little we can do
this small bravery of knowledge,
and there is of course
madness and terror too
in knowing
that something of you
wound up like a clock
can never be wound again
once it stops.
but now
there's a ticking under your shirt
and you whirl the beans with a spoon,
one love dead, one departed
another love...
ah! as many loves as beans
yes, count them now
sad, sad
your feelings boiling over flame,
get this down.
I don't know who cut the last stanza, but this 1963 appearance kind of puts to rest the idea that Bukowski wrote all of the poems for
Crucifix in New Orleans in 1965 (though now that I check, this is the only poem with an earlier appearance...).