I'm posting the version 12,000 Dollars in 3 Months... from Midwest No. 4, 1962, and the version from Roominghouse Madrigals for comparison purposes. But I have another question aside from the changes. Can anyone tell me what the green pen notations are in my copy of Midwest? Isn't that usually...
This is especially interesting, as it was changed during Hank's lifetime. And even though the changes are only 2 words, they give a whole different meaning and feeling to the poem.
Here's what 'THE ROOMINGHOUSE MADRIGALS' (1988, p.69) say:
I Cannot Stand Tears
there were several hundred fools...
scans of EPOS, Vol.16, No.4, edited by Will Tullos and Evelyn Thorne (Crescent City: Epos, Summer 1965) featuring the Bukowski poem 4:30AM. While this poem originally appeared in Sciamachy No.6 (Winnetka: Sciamachy, 1964) and was later collected in The Roominghouse Madrigals (Santa Rosa: BSP...
Originally published in EXISTARIA (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) no. 7 (September-October 1957), p. 4.
I don't know whether the poem "1975" has been reprinted or not.