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

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

waiting for death
like a cat
that will jump on the
bed
I am so very sorry for

I sit here on the 2nd floor
hunched over in yellow
pajamas
still pretending to be
a writer.

it was on the 2nd floor on Coronad
I used to get drunk
and throw the radio through the wi
while it was playing, and, of cour
it would break the glass in the wi

with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack program
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file

the final curtain on one of the lo
musicals ever, some people claim t
seen it over one hundred times.
I saw it on the tv news, that fina
flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero

we had goldfish and they circled a
in the bowl on the table near the
covering the picture window and
my mother, always smiling, wanting
to be happy, told me, ‘be happy He

during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores

some dogs who sleep At night
must dream of bones
and I remember your bones
in flesh
and best