There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark

I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,

Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...

R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?