I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…

old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back

the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my

they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

consistency is terrific: shark-mouth grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long blazing hair—