Information has been received in this office indicating that you were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 12, 1969, on a drunk charge. In this connection, your atten...

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage

I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of

There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...

women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.

see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.

around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...