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

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…

So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...

I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...

John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...