if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.
if you’re going to try, go all the
way.

washed—up, on shore, the old yello
out again
I write from the bed
as I did last
year.

you haven’t lived
until you’ve been in a
flophouse
with nothing but one
light bulb

good weather
is like
good women—
it doesn’t always happen
and when it does

here I am
in the ground
my mouth
open
and

I was a bum in San Francisco but
to go to a symphony concert along
and the music was good but somethi
audience was not
and something about the orchestra

I reached up into the top of the c
and took out a pair of blue pantie
and showed them to her and
asked “are these yours?”

I see you drinking at a fountain w
blue hands, no, your hands are not
they are small, and the fountain i
where you wrote me that last lette
I answered and never heard from yo

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

I awakened to dryness and the fern
the potted plants yellow as corn;
my woman was gone
and the empty bottles like bled co
surrounded me with their uselessne