of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3

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

We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...

Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...

I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.