at North Avenue 21 drunk tank you… there was always some guy who woul… way to the crapper and then you would curse him good,… he would know enough to either be…

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

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…

The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...

the Mexican dancer shook her fans… me and her ass at me, I didn’t ask her to and my woman got mad and ran out of th… it began raining and you could hea…

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...

We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...

wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists

We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…