self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen

at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

as the spirit wanes the form

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone ringing the w…