They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

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

once we were young at this machine. . . drinking

the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot

At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.

The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...