I took women either to the boxing matches or to the racetrack. That Thursday night I took Katherine to the boxing matches at the Olympic auditorium. She had never been to a live fight. ...

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…

there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…

I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.