the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten

I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…

The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth

over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,

I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.

Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...

to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;

you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as

I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...