we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…

I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...

this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time

I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...

he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth

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

She wasn’t really a cop, she was a clerk-cop. And she started coming in and telling me about a guy who wore a purple stick pin and was a “real gentleman.” “Well,” I’d ask, “how was old ...

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;

he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…