I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...

first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…

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

hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...

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...

I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...