That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

think of the beds used again and again to fuck in to die in. in this land

used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

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…

she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

the kid went back to New York Cit… he met in a kibbutz. he left his mother at the age of 32, a well-kept fellow, sense of h… wore the same pair of shorts

you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…

to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...