SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore wa… three-legged crow on the dandelion… He was, of course, a Jew, a retir… who had been torpedoed in the Nort…

Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two trans… before discovering

I walked across the park to the fe… It was in the center of a glass sq… by red flowers and fountains. The… was in the shape of a sea horse an… We got hot and died.

It’s night

A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washin… to tell you that his case went to…

WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing… boards across the creek. That was… The boards dammed up the creek eno… bathtub there, and the creek flowe…

I don’t know what it is, but I distrust myself when I start to like a girl a lot.

A girl in a green mini– skirt, not very pretty, walks down the street.

If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by

This poem was found written on a p… Brautigan in a laundromat in San…

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinki… about you.

Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin

A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what?

For Marcia

Oh, pretty girl, you have trapped yourself in the wrong body.Twenty extra pounds hang like a lumpy tapestry on your perfect mammal na… Three months ago you were like a