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sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine
here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about
My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn
Tammie came by that night. She appeared to be high on uppers. “I want some champagne,” she said. Then the phone rang. It was Lydia. “I just wondered how you were doing. ...” “You know D...
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...
once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass
The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...
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...
This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch