they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

the goldfish sing all night with g… and the whores go down with the st… the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30, besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...