Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...

great writer remains in bed shades down doesn’t want to see anyone doesn’t want to write anymore doesn’t want to try anymore;

nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…

he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…