I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…

as the spirit wanes the form

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

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

the Mexican dancer shook her fans… me and her ass at me, I didn’t ask her to and my woman got mad and ran out of th… it began raining and you could hea…

I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...

see this poem? was written without drinking. don’t need to drink to write.