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

The riots ended, the baby calmed down, and I found ways to avoid Janko. But the dizzy spells persisted. The doctor wrote me a standing order for the green-white librium capsules and the...

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...

Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...

we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.

the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

watch you walking with your machin… ah, you’re too stupid to be cut li… you’re too stupid to let anything… the girls won’t use their knives o… they don’t want to

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer