I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...

the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…

After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...

drinking 15 dollar champagne— Cordon Rouge—with the hookers. one is named Georgia and she doesn’t like pantyhose: I keep helping her pull up

Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. During lunch one day I was a...

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

I was editing a little magazine at the time, The Laxative Approach. I had two co-editors and we felt that we were printing the best poets of our time. Also some of the other kind. One o...

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair