they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.

my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business

there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…

they don’t make it the beautiful die in flame— suicide pills, rat poison, rope, w… ever... they rip their arms off,

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

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the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms