love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

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

hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,

I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels

I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…

R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...