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Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...
sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the
I got up for a glass of water and as I walked into the kitchen I saw Picasso walk up to Joyce and lick her ankle. I was barefooted and she didn’t hear me. She had on high heels. She loo...
you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands
there are beasts in the salt shake… and airdromes in the coffeepot. my mother’s hand is in the bag dra… and from the backs of spoons come the cries of tiny tortured animals…
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose
16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—
the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they
Some say we should keep personal r… poem, stay abstract, and there is some r… but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don’t keep…
There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...
I forget the beginning time. 6 or 7 p.m. Something like that. All you did was sit with a handful of letters, take a streetmap and figure your run. It was easy. All the drivers took much...
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,
the schoolyard was a horror show:… freaks the beatings up against the wire f… our schoolmates watching glad that they were not the victim…