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

the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe

On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...

in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…

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

this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time

went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…

It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce-pickers of Salinas?

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 j… female. brown paper bags filled with trash… everywhere. is one-thirty in the afternoon.

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…