I was hungover again, another heat spell… Some of the boys wore African sun helme… I put pieces of cardboard in the shoes.… The whiskey and beer ran put of me, foun… Some woman screamed at me:

I awaken about noon and go out to get th… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

he got knifed in broad daylight, came up… holding his hands over his gut, dripping… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their place… he made it to the Mission doorway, colla…

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wino who beat her every

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in drag here comes nothing to do all day long here comes another night of no sleep here comes the phone ringing the wrong v…

I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

the acute and terrible air hangs with mu… as summer birds mingle in the branches and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind; an old parrot

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

I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...