the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...

We drank all day and that night I tried again to make love to Mindy. I was astounded and dismayed to find she had a large pussy. An extra large pussy. I hadn’t noticed it the night befo...

I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below