I was back in L.A. about a week and a half. It was night. The phone rang. It was Cecelia, she was sobbing. “Hank, Bill is dead. You’re the first one I’ve called.” “I’m so glad you came ...

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age

we tried to hide it in the house s… neighbors wouldn’t see. was difficult, sometimes we both h… be gone at once and when we return… there would be excreta and urine a…

the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.

you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3

In bed I had something in front o… “Sorry, baby,” I said. Then I ro… Then something awakened me. It wa… “Go, baby, go!” I told her. I arched my back now and then. Sh…

I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...

remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”