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

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,

don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...

I began at 6:18 p.m. and Dave Janko did not begin until 10:36 p.m., so it could have been worse. Having a 10:06 thirty minute lunch, I was usually back by the time he got in. In he’d co...

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others