once we were young at this machine. . . drinking

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

by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls

It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…

never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that

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…

it takes a lot of desperation dissatisfaction

a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo… scrubbed the walls vacuumed

there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not goi… to let anybody see

naked along the side of the house, 8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil over my body, Jesus, have I come to this? I once battled in dark alleys for…

sometimes you climb out of bed in… I’m not going to make it, but you… remembering all the times you’ve f… you walk to the bathroom, do your… in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my,…

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

the lady has me temporarily off th… and now the pecker stands up better. however, things change overnight— instead of listening to Shostakovi…

I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks—about the time of the garbage