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my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…
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 always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls
The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...
the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,
I can see myself now after all these suicide days and n… being wheeled out of one of those… (of course, this is only if I get… by a subnormal and bored nurse
they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,
we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…
—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business
what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case
she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and
it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind
the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side
I drank for the next week. I drank night and day and wrote 25 or 30 mournful poems about lost love. It was Friday night when the phone rang. It was Mercedes. “I got married,” she said, ...
my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.