they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...

That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...

After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...

he was just a cat cross-eyed, dirty white with pale blue eyes

for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there

It was a Wednesday night, 12:30 am and I was very sick. My stomach was raw, but I managed to hold down a few beers. Tammie was with me and she seemed sympathetic. Dancy was at her grand...

I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…

the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",