16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

One night I was coming around the corne… It was Tom Moto! The guy I had subbed… “Moto, you motherfuck!” I said. “Hank!” he said. We shook hands.

The voices of the people were the same,… “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the… “Mailman! Mailman! This doesn’t go here… The streets were full of insane and dull… I asked some of the others who had carri…

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls off and an airplane chews the white sky,

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

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

I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...

Lydia returned and found a nice apartment in the Burbank area. She seemed to care a lot more for me than before we parted. “My husband had this big cock and that’s all he had. He had no...

all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over all th… but you flew high to bomb the people, you never saw it,

we’d had any number of joints and some beer and I was on the bed stretched out and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 abortion… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick of abortions, I don’t want you to stick tha…

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table