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;

I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...

in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same

The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...