my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.

rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

The track had moved down the coast a hundred miles or so. I kept paying the rent on my apartment in town, got in my car and drove down. Once or twice a week I would drive back to the ap...

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.

“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.

I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…