So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...

You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...

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…

you know what Li Po said when ask… Artist or Rich? I’d rather be Rich,” he replied,… sitting on the doorsteps of the Rich.”

I am in this low—slung sports car painted a deep, rich yellow driving under an Italian sun. I have a British accent. I’m wearing dark shades

absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there

the kid went back to New York Cit… he met in a kibbutz. he left his mother at the age of 32, a well-kept fellow, sense of h… wore the same pair of shorts