I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...

if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.

I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar

the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot

I’ve come by, she says, to tell yo… that this is it. I’m not kidding,… over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her ar… her long red hair before my bedroo…

they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

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

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…