The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.

my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits

the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray

John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

My drinking slowed down the next week. I went to the racetrack to get fresh air and sunshine and plenty of walking. At night I drank, wondering why I was still alive, how the scheme wor...

I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty