I found a room on Temple Street in the Filipino district. It was $3.50 a week, upstairs on the second floor. I paid the landlady—a middle-aged blond—a week’s rent. The toilet and tub we...

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;

In the morning Dee Dee drove me to the Sunset Strip for breakfast. The Mercedes was black and shone in the sun. We drove past the billboards and the nightclubs and the fancy restaurants...

The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,

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

cleaned my place the other day first time in ten years and found 100 rejected poems: fastened them all to a clipboard much bad reading.

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

kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…

Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...

he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and