in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

there’s Barry in his ripped walkin… he’s on Thorazine is 24 looks 38 lives with his mother in the same

drinking 15 dollar champagne— Cordon Rouge—with the hookers. one is named Georgia and she doesn’t like pantyhose: I keep helping her pull up

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

liked D . H. Lawrence he could get so indignant he snapped and he ripped with wonderfully energetic sentenc… he could lay the word down

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

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...

That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed