I was standing in line at the bank… when the old fellow in front of me dropped his glasses (luckily, with… case) and as he bent over

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

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...

the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs

I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...

I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,

A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...