we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a

Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...

Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch

long ago he edited a little magazi… was up in San Francisco during the beat era during the reading-poetry-with-jaz… and I remember him because he neve…

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

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…

Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...

Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...

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