Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you

I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...

we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...

I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...

On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...

all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark