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

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

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...

he sits all day at the bus stop at Sunset and Western his sleeping bag beside him. he’s dirty. nobody bothers him.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...

she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen

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