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

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

she wrote me a letter from a small room near the Seine. she said she was going to dancing class, she got up, she said at 5 o’clock in the morning

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...

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

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

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,

One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...

I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others

if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.