I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...

I phoned her. It was 1 am. I went over. Tammie lived in a small bungalow behind… She let me in. “Be quiet. Don’t wake Dancy. She’s my… old and she’s asleep in the bedroom.”

In the morning Dee Dee drove me to the Sunset Strip for breakfast. The Mercedes was black and shone in the sun. We drove past the billboards and the nightclubs and the fancy restaurants...

you’ve got to fuck a great many women beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.

the ladies of summer will die like the r… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever

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...

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

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

The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...

This will refer to the letter addressed to you dated August 17, 1969, proposing your suspension without pay for three days or other disciplinary action, based on Charge No. 1 specified ...

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

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