for Steve Richmond
the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…
she left me 5 weeks ago and went t… that is, I think she left. the other day I went out to mail h… and I saw her sitting on the bus s… it was her hair there
you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,
it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man
he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…
she sits on the floor going through a cardboard box reading me love letters I have wri… while her 4 year old daughter lies… wrapped in a pink blanket and
when God created love he didn’t he… when God created dogs He didn’t h… when God created plants that was a… when God created hate we had a sta… when God created me He created me
you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…
he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…
this Friday night the Mexican girls at the Catholic… look especially good their husbands are in the bars and the Mexican girls look young
they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,
terrible arguments. and, at last, lying peacefully on her large bed which is spread in red with cool patterns o…
crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…
man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.
some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind… for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and
my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.
twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
listen, man, don’t tell me about t… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscrip… we bake them burn them
if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.
92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago
it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs
this kid used to teach at Kansas… then they moved him out he went to a bean factory then he and his wife moved to the… she got a job and worked while
I was glad I had money in the Sav… Friday afternoon hungover I didn’t have a job I was glad I had money in the Sav… I didn’t know how to play a guitar
I got in the shower and burned my balls last Wednesday. met this painter called Spain, no, he was a cartoonist,
the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.
in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,