call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat

I stop my car at the signal I see her walking past the graveya… as she walks past the iron fence I can see through the iron fence and I see the headstones

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall

if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…

That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where

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

Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...