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

near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore

she was in her orange Volks waitin… as I walked up the street with 2 six packs and a pint of sco… and she jumped out and began grabbing the beerbottles…

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon

I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...

An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…

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.

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,