you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

she wore a platinum blond wig and her face was rouged and powder… and she put the lipstick on making a huge painted mouth and her neck was wrinkled

don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem

listening to Bruckner on the radio wondering why I’m not half mad over the latest breakup with my latest girlfriend wondering why I’m not driving the…

the drifting of the mind. the slow loss, the leaking away. one’s demise is not very interesti… from my bed I watch 3 birds throug… one coal black, one dark brown, th…

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.