My First Affair With That Older Woman Poem by Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski - My First Affair With That Older Womanwhen I look back now
at the abuse I took from
her
I feel shame that I was so
innocent,
but I must say
she did match me drink for
drink,
and I realized that her life
her feelings for things
had been ruined
along the way
and that I was no mare than a
temporary
companion;
she was ten years older
and mortally hurt by the past
and the present;
she treated me badly:
desertion, other
men;
she brought me immense
pain,
continually;
she lied, stole;
there was desertion,
other men,
yet we had our moments; and
our little soap opera ended
with her in a coma
in the hospital,
and I sat at her bed
for hours
talking to her,
and then she opened her eyes
and saw me:
"I knew it would be you,"
she said.
then hse closed her
eyes.
the next day she was
dead.
I drank alone
for two years
after that.
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Charles Bukowski Poetry
8 Count A Challenge To The Dark A Following A Man A Radio With Guts A Smile To Remember Alone With Everybody An Almost Made Up ANOTHER BED Another Day Are You Drinking washed-up Are You Drinking? AS CRAZY AS I EVER WAS As The Poems Go As The Sparrow Back to the Machine Gun BAD TIMES AT THE 3RD AND VERMONT HOTEL Be Angry At San Pedro Be Kind BEER Big Night On The Town Bluebird Cause And Effect Confession Cows In Art Class Cut While Shaving Cut While Shaving death of an idiot Death of an idiot Death Wants More Death Eat Your Heart Out This is It Flophouse For The Foxes Freedom Gamblers All God I got the sad blue blues Grief Hell is a Lonely Place I Made A Mistake Love & Fame & Death man in the sun Man in the sun My Father My First Affair With That Older Woman My Groupie New Mexico NIGHT SCHOOL Night School by Bukowski Nirvana Poem On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show Prayer In Bad Weather by God, I don't know what to do Question and Answer Rain Or Shine Roll the Dice by Bukowski Ruin SHE SAID Short Order Show Biz Sleep Socks in the Corner Some People THE ALIENS The Blackbirds are Rough Today The Great Poet The Great Slob The History Of One Tough Motherfucker Stray Cat The House The Laughing Heart The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth The Moon And The Stars And The World The Poetry Reading The Retreat The Secret Of My endurance by Bukowski The Shower The Worst And The Best They only burn themselves to reach Paradise THOSE GIRLS WE FOLLOWED HOME to the whore who took mys Trachcan Lives Traffic report Trapped Trash can True Story Upon reading a critical review Van Gogh We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain What A Writer Who In The Hell Is Tom Jones Young in New Orleans your big white belly
8 Count A Challenge To The Dark A Following A Man A Radio With Guts A Smile To Remember Alone With Everybody An Almost Made Up ANOTHER BED Another Day Are You Drinking washed-up Are You Drinking? AS CRAZY AS I EVER WAS As The Poems Go As The Sparrow Back to the Machine Gun BAD TIMES AT THE 3RD AND VERMONT HOTEL Be Angry At San Pedro Be Kind BEER Big Night On The Town Bluebird Cause And Effect Confession Cows In Art Class Cut While Shaving Cut While Shaving death of an idiot Death of an idiot Death Wants More Death Eat Your Heart Out This is It Flophouse For The Foxes Freedom Gamblers All God I got the sad blue blues Grief Hell is a Lonely Place I Made A Mistake Love & Fame & Death man in the sun Man in the sun My Father My First Affair With That Older Woman My Groupie New Mexico NIGHT SCHOOL Night School by Bukowski Nirvana Poem On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show Prayer In Bad Weather by God, I don't know what to do Question and Answer Rain Or Shine Roll the Dice by Bukowski Ruin SHE SAID Short Order Show Biz Sleep Socks in the Corner Some People THE ALIENS The Blackbirds are Rough Today The Great Poet The Great Slob The History Of One Tough Motherfucker Stray Cat The House The Laughing Heart The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth The Moon And The Stars And The World The Poetry Reading The Retreat The Secret Of My endurance by Bukowski The Shower The Worst And The Best They only burn themselves to reach Paradise THOSE GIRLS WE FOLLOWED HOME to the whore who took mys Trachcan Lives Traffic report Trapped Trash can True Story Upon reading a critical review Van Gogh We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain What A Writer Who In The Hell Is Tom Jones Young in New Orleans your big white belly
