R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

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

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…