over my radio now comes the sound of a truly mad org… can see some monk drunk in a cellar mind gone or found,

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

believe in earning one’s own way but I also believe in the unexpect… gift and it is a wondrous thing when a woman who has read your wor…

I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...

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

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

the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care

take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...

these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough

I was coming off an affair that ha… frankly, I was sliding down into a… really feeling shitty and low when I lucked into this lady with… covered with a jeweled canopy