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

I had just won $115 from the heads
was naked upon my bed
listening to an opera by one of th
and had just gotten rid of a very
when there was a knock upon the wo

call it the greenhouse effect or w
but it just doesn’t rain like it u
I particularly remember the rains
depression era.
there wasn’t any money but there w

starving there, sitting around the
and at night walking the streets f
hours,
the moonlight always seemed fake
to me, maybe it was,

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

Either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you
when I was a young man
I felt these things were
dumb, unsophisticated.

We are like roses that have never
bloom when we should have bloomed
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting

he sat naked and drunk in a room o
night, running the blade of the kn
under his fingernails, smiling, th
of all the letters he had received
telling him that

she was a short one
getting fat and she had once been
beautiful and
she drank the wine
she drank the wine in bed and

as the poems go into the thousands
realize that you’ve created very
little.
it comes down to the rain, the sun
the traffic, the nights and the da