the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

you’ve got to fuck a great many wo… beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.

There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,