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.

O lord, he said, Japanese women,
real women, they have not forgotte
bowing and smiling
closing the wounds men have made;
but American women will kill you l

Van Gogh cut off his ear
gave it to a
prostitute
who flung it away in
extreme

I took my girlfriend
to your last poetry reading,
she said “yes”,
“yes?” I asked.
"she`s young and pretty",

sway with me, everything sad—
madmen in stone houses
without doors,
lepers steaming love and song
frogs trying to figure

was a truly amazing man
he pretended to be
rich
even though we lived on beans and
when we sat down to eat, he said,

I read last Saturday in the
redwoods outside of Santa Cruz
and I was about 3/4's finished
when I heard a long high scream
and a quite attractive

I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry

too much too little
too fat
too thin
or nobody.
laughter or

I was fairly drunk when it
began and I took out my bottle and
along the way. I was reading a wee
Kandel and I did not look quite a
pretty but