light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?

horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb

I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...

crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;