Jane, who has been dead for 31 yea
never could have
imagined that I would write a scre
days together
and

at the track today,
Father’s Day,
each paid admission was
entitled to a wallet
and each contained a

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

dumb,
Jesus Christ,
some people are so dumb
you can hear them
splashing around

I see old people on pensions in th
supermarkets and they are thin and
proud and they are dying
they are starving on their feet an
nothing. long ago, among other lie

we are always asked
to understand the other person’s
viewpoint
no matter how
out—dated

this fear of being what they are:
dead.
at least they are not out on the s
are careful to stay indoors, those
pasty mad who sit alone before the

when Whitman wrote, “I sing the b
I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:

a girlfriend came in
built me a bed
scrubbed and waxed the kitchen flo
scrubbed the walls
vacuumed

we have everything and we have not
and some men do it in churches
and some men do it by tearing butt
in half
and some men do it in Palm Spring