the elephants are caked with mud and tir… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care

Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the lost: met an old man and a tired whore

I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...

kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases of

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

remember, he told me, that when I was 6… years old my mother was always taking me to the doctor and saying, “he hasn’t poo… she was always asking me, “have you pooped?”