places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...

Dee Dee had to pick up her son at the airport. He was coming home from England for his vacation. He was 17, she told me, and his father was an ex-concert pianist. But he’d fallen for sp...

I think of automobiles parked in a parking lot when I think of myself dead I think of frying pans when I think of myself dead

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch

stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear

After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...

my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades