I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

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

yes, they begin out in a willow, I… the starch mountains begin out in… and keep right on going without re… pumas and nectarines somehow these mountains are like

the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs

Then some men came around and ripped out every other water– fountain. “Hey, look, what the hell are they doing?” I asked. I was in the 3rd class flat section. I walked over to another c...