I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...

That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

Two nights later I went over to Tammie’s place on Rustic Court. I knocked. The lights weren’t on. It seemed empty. I looked in her mailbox. There were letters in there. I wrote a note, ...

a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold

vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...