it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…

he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his

I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered

drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the

in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen

Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…

I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.

Bobby and Valerie came by and I introduced everybody around. “Valerie and I are going to take a vacation and rent rooms by the seashore in Manhattan Beach,” said Bobby. “Why don’t you g...