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

Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...

he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

Our man was there to meet us, Gary Benson. He also wrote poetry and drove a cab. He was very fat but at least he didn’t look like a poet, he didn’t look North Beach or East Village or l...

There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...

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

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough

That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...

first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.

When I awakened a few hours later, Tanya was not in the bed. It was only 9 am. I found her sitting on the couch drinking out of a pint of whiskey. “I always get up at noon. We’re going ...