Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

The next night Bobby and Valerie came over. They had recently moved into my apartment building and now lived across the court. Bobby had on his tight knit shirt. Everything always fitte...

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

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…

At 3:30 a.m. my twelve hours were… I set the alarm so that I would b… “What happened, Hank? We thought… “I’m quitting.” “Quitting?” “Yes, you can’t blame a man for wa…

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun