I sit here, an arch-villain of rom… thinking about you. Gee, I’m sorr… I made you unhappy, but there was… I could do about it because I hav… Perhaps everything would have been…

SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore wa… three-legged crow on the dandelion… He was, of course, a Jew, a retir… who had been torpedoed in the Nort…

ZAP! unlaid / 20 days

I am standing in the cemetery at… What did Judy say? ‘God-forsaken… A very old man who has cancer on h… care of the cemetery, is raking a… manner as to almost (polish it lik…

A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what?

We stopped at perfect days and got out of the car. The wind glanced at her hair. It was as simple as that. I turned to say something—

For Marcia

Driving through hot brushy country the late autumn, I saw a hawk crucified on a

If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by

This poem was found written on a p… Brautigan in a laundromat in San…

THE AUTOPSY OF TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA This is the autopsy of Trout Fish… Fishing in America had been Lord… Missolonghi, Greece, and afterwar…

Oh, pretty girl, you have trapped yourself in the wrong body.Twenty extra pounds hang like a lumpy tapestry on your perfect mammal na… Three months ago you were like a

With his hat on he’s about five inches taller than a taxicab.

A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washin… to tell you that his case went to…

We left Little Redfish for Lake Josephus, traveling along the good names—from Stanley to Capehorn to Seafoam to the Rapid River, up Float Creek, past the Greyhound Mine and then to Lake...