she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy

I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...

the kid went back to New York Cit… he met in a kibbutz. he left his mother at the age of 32, a well-kept fellow, sense of h… wore the same pair of shorts

I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...

dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.

But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...