Eulogy to an Old Car?

[posey]

I've looked for years for a poem Bukowski wrote about his old car dying. I read it once in a bookstore, then put the book down without buying it, and have regretted it ever since. I love that poem, think of it often.

If memory serves:

it was in a small pink chapbook published by Black Sparrow
it was about his old car finally dying
he wrote it as if to an old lover
there is a scene in the poem where the car is towed away.

can anyone help?

 

[Gerard K H Love]

That is a poem about a lover. There are several.

 

[Claire]

eulogy to an old car

The poem is simply called 'eulogy', and you can find it in 'The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps'.

 

[roni]

thanks Claire.
Nice first post.

 

[hijacku]

In case anyone is feeling lazy..

[Snip]

 

[mjp]

We have the manuscript, so the Martinized version is best left in the books.