she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…

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

over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...

I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves

dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.

We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...

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

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!