once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…

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

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

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...