she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

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

all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…

strange warmth, hot and cold femal… I make good love, but love isn’t j… sex. most females I’ve known are ambitious, and I like to lie aroun… on large comfortable pillows at 3…

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…