Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

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…

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...

An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage

he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

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

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old