16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…

Lydia returned and found a nice apartment in the Burbank area. She seemed to care a lot more for me than before we parted. “My husband had this big cock and that’s all he had. He had no...

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me

at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their

“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…

I began getting dizzy spells. I could feel them coming. The case would begin to whirl. The spells lasted about a minute. I couldn’t understand it. Each letter was getting heavier and he...

here I am in the ground my mouth open and