The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...

Then I started coming home unhappy. “What’s the matter, Hank?” I had to get drunk every night. “It’s the manager, Freddy. He has start… “What’s the name of the song?”

we’d had any number of joints and some beer and I was on the bed stretched out and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 abortion… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick of abortions, I don’t want you to stick tha…

are we going to the movies or not? she asked him. all right, he said, let’s go. I’m not going to put any pan ties on so you can finger-fuck me in the

the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

I didn’t do much the rest of the week. The Oaktree meet was on. I went to the track 2 or 3 times, broke even. I wrote a dirty story for a sex mag, wrote 10 or 12 poems, masturbated, and...

I saw her when I was in the left lane going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

That summer, July 1934, they gunned dow… movie house in Chicago. He never had a… repealed and my father drank Eastside be… everybody feel terrible. Roosevelt was… over the radio and everybody listened. H…