#Americans #XXCentury
I am watching a girl dressed in a light green sweater, blue shorts,… there is a necklace of some sort but her breasts are small, poor th… and she watches her nails
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
got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…
Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…
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
stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…
the illusion is that you are simpl… reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem.
the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below
let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air
sway with me, everything sad— madmen in stone houses without doors, lepers steaming love and song frogs trying to figure
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose
We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...
the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)