Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...

The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?

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

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...