sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

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...

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

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.

the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives

at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited

The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...