she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

listening to Bruckner on the radio wondering why I’m not half mad over the latest breakup with my latest girlfriend wondering why I’m not driving the…

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

Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

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...

I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...

I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...