this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

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

I awaken about noon and go out to get th… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

call it th e green house effect or what… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of the depression era.

I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hands steps out in front of my car

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...

he talked about Steinbeck and Thomas Wo… wrote like a cross between the two of th… and I lived in a hotel on Figueroa Stre… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a small r…

R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...

Mindy stayed about a week. I introduced her to my friends. We went places. But nothing was resolved. I couldn’t climax. She didn’t seem to mind. It was strange. Around 10:45 PM one even...

he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every day with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, and there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small trout p…

they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, what– ever... they rip their arms off,

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted