for Steve Richmond
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough
I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…
she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,
I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…
it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano… my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves
if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…
he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…
the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish
the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down
wha’, what did you expect? a schoo… some more practical lover filling… I’m a fool and no gentleman: I wa… with Crane in pajamas, but suicide… there’s less and less to kill.
I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
here they come these guys grey truck radio playing they are in a hurry
the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care
I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta
no we can’t we can’t win it I’ve decided we can’t win it just for a while we thought we cou… but that was just for a while
she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .
love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers
I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,
murdered in the alleys of the land frost-bitten against flagpoles pawned by females educated in the dark for the dark vomiting into plugged toilets
out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories,
he spoke to mice and sparrows and his hair was white at the age… his father beat him every day and… lit candles in the church. his grandmother came while the boy…
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,
