this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,

I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...

in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…