in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;

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

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking

he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…

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…

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

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.

see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.