I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...

you go for these wenches, she said… you go for these whores, I’ll bore you. I don’t want to be shit on anymore… I said,

it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...

no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

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

first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.