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

Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...

I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...

On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...

I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air

live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.

he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt