at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

sit on this bench and look at the sea and the freaks and the lovers. need new eyes a new mouth new pillows, a new woman.

Bobby’s wife worked two nights a week and when she was gone he got on the telephone. I knew that on Tuesday and Thursday nights he would be lonely. It was Tuesday night when the phone r...

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...

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car

I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood