the goldfish sing all night with g
and the whores go down with the st
the whores go down with the stars
I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30,
besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,

Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or
To do a dull thing with style is p
To do a dangerous thing with style
Bullfighting can be an art

the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break

the mockingbird had been following
all summer
mocking mocking mocking
teasing and cocksure;
the cat crawled under rockers on p

I still get letters in the mail, m
men in tiny rooms with factory job
living with whores or no woman at
booze and madness.
Most of their letters are on lined

during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores

when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b
I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:

stuck in the rain on the freeway,
these are the lucky ones, these ar
dutifully employed, most with thei
as possible as they try not to thi
this is our new civilization: as m

the history of melancholia
includes all of us.
me, I writhe in dirty sheets
while staring at blue walls
and nothing.

you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very little
friction or