consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—

once we were young at this machine. . . drinking

she cut my toenails the night before, and in the morning she said, “I think I… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to work. she was at my apartment—which meant anot…

“your poems about the girls will still b… 50 years from now when the girls are gon… my editor phones me. dear editor: the girls appear to be gone

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

yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m out 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 door

I forget the beginning time. 6 or 7 p.m. Something like that. All you did was sit with a handful of letters, take a streetmap and figure your run. It was easy. All the drivers took much...

Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in fr… cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up… had one black eye from the fight, anothe… lips were puffed. My left ear was bright… An old man came to the door. He was in…

I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...

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