When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...

The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...

probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…