I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…

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

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...

I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

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,

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

out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories,

sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 j… female. brown paper bags filled with trash… everywhere. is one-thirty in the afternoon.

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...

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...

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car