like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as

My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;

my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.

On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.

they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,