and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps

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

as the spirit wanes the form

I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

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

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

the Mexican dancer shook her fans… me and her ass at me, I didn’t ask her to and my woman got mad and ran out of th… it began raining and you could hea…

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you