the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

I forget the beginning time. 6 or 7 p.m. Something like that. All you did was sit with a handful of letters, take a streetmap and figure your run. It was easy. All the drivers took much...

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

one of the first actors to play Ta… Motion Picture Home. he’d been there for years waiting… he spent much of his time running in and out of the wards

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight