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

I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

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

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

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.

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

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…

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists

I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...