my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with

there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3

he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…

I got up for a glass of water and as I walked into the kitchen I saw Picasso walk up to Joyce and lick her ankle. I was barefooted and she didn’t hear me. She had on high heels. She loo...

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,

the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…

the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side