we like to shower afterwards
(I like the water hotter than she)
and her face is always soft and pe
and she’ll wash me first
spread the soap over my balls

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.

They are building a house
half a block down
and I sit up here
with the shades down
listening to the sounds,

some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind
for 3 or 4 days.
they’ll find me there.
it’s Cherub, they’ll say, and

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

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

the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break

drunk again at 3 a.m. at the end o
of wine, I have typed from a dozen
poesy
an old man
maddened for the flesh of young gi

I was standing in line at the bank
when the old fellow in front of me
dropped his glasses (luckily, with
case)
and as he bent over

I laugh sometimes when I think ab
say
Céline at a typewriter
or Dostoevsky...
or Hamsun...