That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...

all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

red hair real she whirled it and she asked “is my ass still on?”

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,

yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

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

self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where

Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...