here I sitagainas the radio announcersays, “for the next3 hours we will be listeningto a selection of?” it’s now eleven p.m.I’ve listened to this man’svoicefor many many years.he must be…

I was fairly drunk when itbegan and I took out my bottle and used italong the way. I was reading a week or two afterKandel and I did not look…

you haven’t liveduntil you’ve been in aflophousewith nothing but onelight bulband 56 mensqueezed togetheron cotswith everybodysnoringat onceand some of thosesnoressodeep andgross andunbelievable-darksnottygrosssubhumanwheezingsfrom hellitself.your mindalmost breaksunder thosedeath-likesoundsand theinterminglingodors:hardunwashed sockspissed andshitted underwearand…

I can’t have itand you can’t have itand we won’tget it so don’t bet on itor even think aboutit just get out of bedeach morning washshaveclotheyourselfand go out intoit becauseoutside…

They are building a househalf a block downand I sit up herewith the shades downlistening to the sounds,the hammers pounding in nails,thack thack thack thack,and then I hear birds,and thack…

they talk down throughthe centuries to us,and this we need more and more,the statues and paintingsin midnight ageas we go alongholding dead hands. and we would sayrather than delude the…

the final curtain on one of the longest runningmusicals ever, some people claim to haveseen it over one hundred times.I saw it on the tv news, that final curtain:flowers, cheers,…

I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading,she said.yes, yes? I asked.she’s young and pretty, she said.and? I asked.she hated yourguts. then she stretched out on the couchand pulled…

I have just spent one-hour-and-a-halfhandicapping tomorrow’scard.when am I going to get at the poems?well, they’ll just have to waitthey’ll have to warm their feet in the anteroomwhere they’ll sit gossiping…

I remember best coming out of that factory into thenightnone of us saying muchglad to get outbut needing the job—getting into our old carsone could hear the grinding of the…