After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...

That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…

Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain

Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...

Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...

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

rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore

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...