sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.

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...

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...

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,

the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs

at one stage in my life I met a man who claimed to have visited Pound at St. Elizabeths. then I met a woman who not only claimed to have visited