I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…

Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...

There was this place. It stretched over the sea, it was built over the sea. An old place, but with a touch of class. We got a room on the first floor. You could hear the ocean running d...

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head

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

all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.