Manuscripts (2 Viewers)

james · Dec 9, 2018

mjp said:
He's the most!

HA!!!!!!!

roni · Dec 12, 2018

I'm so sad I had to like this.

mjp · Jan 13, 2019

fools run governments, not every-

one can guide the

word.

which Martin changes to:

fools run governments, not every-

one can guide the

world.

- - -

Then there's this:

Ooookay, tell us how you really feel, John...

zobraks · Jan 14, 2019

*sigh*
Every time I think those secretaries at Black Sparrow Press had reached the bottom there is a level underneath.

mjp · Jan 26, 2019

mjp · Feb 10, 2019

https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=2926&Title=the-60s - two versions, same
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=179&Title=40000
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=4743&Title=the-barometer
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=4538&Title=baseball - unpublished
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=670&Title=basic
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/ht.../detail.php?w=677&Title=be-angry-at-san-pedro - two versions
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=678&Title=be-cool-fool - crazy early sloppy (drunk?) version
https://web.archive.org/web/2020/ht...abase/detail.php?w=684&Title=bearclaw-morning - two versions

mjp · Mar 30, 2019

mjp · Nov 17, 2019

roni · Nov 19, 2019

mjp said:
One of today's (many) groaners:

what do you complain about? at least he left the wine intact.

mjp · Nov 19, 2019

20 or 30 years ago, when someone wanted to knock down an old house in Los Angeles and build one of those pre-fab "mansions" in its place, it was common to knock down all of the old house except for a small piece of one wall, then build the new house around it. I suppose they did that for permitting reasons, a "remodel" being easier to get than a tear-down and new build.

I guess you're saying that's what we're looking at here. A Martin "remodel."

Otto jr · Nov 19, 2019

Martin couldn't remodel a chunk of play-doh into a turd if his life depended on it. He can sure do it with poems though..

Edit: Thank you mjp for the hard work and manuscript uploads.

Gallagher · Nov 21, 2019

Quick question here. I'm slowly reading thru the Manuscripts,..GREAT JOB! Thanks!..!
My questions is: What does 'Collected' vs. 'Un-collected' mean?

I can imagine this IS explained,..somewhere. i'm lazy. please show understanding,...
if not partisan-ship!
Thank you, gallagher

p.s.: While I still CAN...(edit ?), What is a 'broadside'? Thank you. ✌

mjp · Nov 21, 2019

"Collected" means the poem appears in a book. In most cases, as far as this database is concerned, that means a Black Sparrow or Ecco book. "Uncollected" means either the poem is unpublished, or that it appeared in a literary magazine at some point.

A broadside is a poem printed on a single piece of paper.

Purple Stickpin · Nov 22, 2019

Actually, wouldn't the 1983 Groff/Blackrose edition of Aftermath... be considered a broadside? Or is there another term for what appears to be a folded broadside with the poem appearing on two pages?

mjp · Nov 22, 2019

I don't know what the rules are. I was just giving the tl;dr definition.

mjp · Nov 23, 2019

d gray · Nov 23, 2019

that drop-down thing you did is great!

mjp · Nov 23, 2019

?

You mean showing the manuscript in the page? I like that too.

If you're talking about something else, I like it as well. ;)

mjp · Nov 23, 2019

If you were ever in doubt, Bukowski killed it when he did long division.

$Buk-math.jpg$

On the back of a manuscript entitled "EMERGENCY."

Missing decimal point? You would say that, you elitist snob. This is the math of the streets! You wouldn't understand.

d gray · Nov 23, 2019

yeah showing the manuscript - very cool.

that's weird, i had a flashback a couple of days ago of doing long division.

mjp · Nov 24, 2019

carlito · Nov 25, 2019

you are spoiling us with all those new manuscripts!

mjp · Nov 25, 2019

There are still a few hundred waiting patiently to see the light of day.

d gray · Nov 25, 2019

dinosauria is such a masterpiece. makes me think a bit of "The Road" by cormac mccarthy.

mjp · Nov 25, 2019

And it was written in 1991, after he'd lost his abilities as a poet. ?

d gray · Nov 25, 2019

yeah! didn't realise he wrote that so late. writing that strong at that age is inspiring.

roni · Nov 26, 2019

d gray said:
that drop-down thing you did ...

Didn't get it first, because when I click a link I always use the "open in new tab"-option (to not loose the original page), which didn't work here. A secend try was necessary.

d gray said:
dinosauria is such a masterpiece.

An all-time classic for sure.

There's a sort of post-triphop-song from late 2001 using the lyrics here.

Black Swan · Feb 15, 2020

zobraks said:
At the end of Jack (one of the funniest poems for me) he wrote/typed "beanstock."
Shouldn't that really be "beanstalk?" Am I missing something?

Feeling that he liked the sound or the look of the word on the page and wanted to add to the irony of the poem. Maybe! :)

mjp · Feb 23, 2020

Black Swan · Feb 23, 2020

Of Dostoyevsky, he says:
lifted me high through the blackness and put me down in a better place.
That’s a nice line...

oneautumnleaf · Nov 2, 2024

mjp said:
In case anyone feels like reading, there are 100+ new manuscripts on the site, mainly in 1985 through 1990 (40+ from 1990 added today, and half of those are "new," meaning uncollected and/or re-titled).

This unfortunately isn't working anymore, I found this post and was reading a lot of his work there that I've never seen before. Think there was an issue with the Wayback machine website but it seems to be up now, expect for this site. Any chance you can repost this if you're able to?

zobraks · Dec 11, 2024

oneautumnleaf · Dec 19, 2024

Great read as always. A shame the rest of the manuscripts can't be accessed through mjp's link.

Keith418 · Dec 23, 2024

Please can someone post the manuscript for "with his awful teeth"?

zobraks · Dec 23, 2024

Keith418 · Dec 24, 2024

Thank you SO MUCH!

zobraks · Dec 24, 2024

All the credit for the manuscript goes to mjp; I'm just a delivery guy.

Keith418 · Dec 24, 2024

Is there any place where they are all stored?

zobraks · Dec 24, 2024

No one has all the manuscripts.

Here's a trick: just type a poem name inside quotation marks, followed by 'Bukowski' in a Google search field and hit Enter.
That's how I got the "Horse from Hell" manuscript, for instance.

Keith418 · Jan 8, 2025

Does anyone have the manuscript to "Wasted"?

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tried to do his best but could not

tried to do his best but could not

tried to do his best but could not

tried to do his best but could not

Abord the Yorikke!

Abord the Yorikke!

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