she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…

I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...

Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt

blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...