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people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...
it’s strange when famous people di… whether they have fought the good… the bad one. it’s strange when famous people di… whether we like them or not
he sits all day at the bus stop at Sunset and Western his sleeping bag beside him. he’s dirty. nobody bothers him.
“you know,” she said, “you were at the bar so you didn’t see but I danced with this guy. we danced and we danced close.
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…
see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…
sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water
I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the
A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night
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
the essence of the belly like a white balloon sacked is disturbing like the running of feet on the stairs
Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...
suppose like others have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple…