Includes: “congrats, Chinask” 8/2/90; published in “Third Lung Review” - Vol. 8 (1992); Buk writes of people who write to congratulate him for living near 70 given his wanton lifestyle - “Congratulations, death, on your patience. I have helped you all that I can,” says Buk; computer printout of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * “all my friends” 2 pp., 3/15/91; published in “Slipstream” - No. 13 (1993); Bukowski relates a dream he had where his friends, made up entirely of dead composers like Mozart, dead writers like Hemingway and dead artists like Picasso appear in various stages of need; computer printout of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * “old” 2 pp., 12/29/91; published in “Bone Palace Ballet” – p.338 (1997); a classic Bukowski poem saying he may be old but he is not polluted like the planet and hasn’t fouled himself up like his grandmother who was “a mound of useless flesh and a mind stuffed with…well, crap”; computer printout of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * “1954 Coronado Street” 5/19/92; unpublished according to bukowski.net; a hilarious poem of an assumed dialogue between Bukowski and his landlord over the swearing, drinking and noise late into the night where Buk has the last word; computer printout of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * “poem for my 72nd birthday, if I get there…” 6/17/92; unpublished according to bukowski.net; near the end of his life, Bukowski does not romanticize his last days, but, realistically traces the little things that now give him pleasure; computer printout of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. * “the condition book” 11/10/92; published in “Wormwood Review” - No. 132, p.213 (1993); “the night torn mad with footsteps”- p.289 (2001); poem rich in the metaphors of Bukowski’s track that has become the man himself. It ends: “I am humanly destroyed, I am the horseplayer who became the race and the track”; computer printout of a typed poem, signed and dated in ink by Bukowski. Together, 6 manuscript poems by Charles Bukowski.
Giving way to technology, Bukowski now produces his poems as computer printouts, signs and dates them and sends them to his publisher. Each with letter of authenticity from Scott Harrison at Abandoned Planet Bookstore.