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

first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…

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...

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal

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...

watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down

here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about

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

here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone wringing the…

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty