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I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",
I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry
I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer.
shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then
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
he talked about Steinbeck and Tho… wrote like a cross between the two… and I lived in a hotel on Figuero… close to the bars and he lived further uptown in a s…
the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the… tray
A week later I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard with Lydia. A weekly entertainment newspaper published in California at that time had asked me to write an article on the life of the...
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
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...
Thanks for the good letter. I don’t think it hurts, sometimes, to remember where you came from. You know the places where I came from. Even the people who try to write about that or mak...
the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…