as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…

On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...

I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…

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

I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with

I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a

don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem