The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

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

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.

man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

red hair real she whirled it and she asked “is my ass still on?”

Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...