I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”

Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...

Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…

sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water

yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like

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

I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...