the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care

Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have

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 next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...

The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

I began getting dizzy spells. I could feel them coming. The case would begin to whirl. The spells lasted about a minute. I couldn’t understand it. Each letter was getting heavier and he...

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...