I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

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 ...

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,

went for a walk on Hollywood Boul… looked down and there was a large… walking beside me. his pace was exactly the same as m… we stopped at traffic signals toge…

I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…

It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as

we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...