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

I’d tell them to have an unhappy l… affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of thei…

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”

Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.

my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

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…

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3

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

I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

I stop my car at the signal I see her walking past the graveya… as she walks past the iron fence I can see through the iron fence and I see the headstones