Everybody wants to go to bed
with everybody else, they’re
lined up for blocks, so I’ll
go to bed with you. They won’t
miss us.

I don’t know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I’m haunted by all
the space that I

WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHI
In San Francisco around Easter t
trout fishing in America peace par
of red stickers printed and they p
foreign cars, and on means of nati

O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival

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

With the rain falling
surgically against the roof,
I ate a dish of ice cream
that looked like Kafka’s hat.

The sweet juices of your mouth
are like castles bathed in honey.
I’ve never had it done so gently b
You have put a circle of castles
around my penis and you swirl them

At 1:30 in the morning a fart
smells like a marriage between
an avocado and a fish head.
I have to get out of bed
to write this down without

It’s so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them