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Table of Contents

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ONE Sandra you the 6 foot goddess I've seen too many glazed-eyed bums sexpot sweet music numb your ass and your brain and your heard one of the hottest ashes fuck me another bed trapped tonight the escape the drill texan the spider the end of a short affair moaning and groaning an almost made up poem blue cheese and chili peppers problems about the other woman T.M. Bee's 5th 103 degrees pacific telephone 225 pounds turnabout one for old snaggletooth communion trying to get even: Chicago quiet clean girls in gingham dresses . . . we will taste the islands and the sea

TWO this poet winter what the want Iron Mike guru the professors for Al--- how to be a great writer the price alone with everybody the 2nd novel Chopin Bukowski gloomy lady cockroach who in the hell is Tom Jones? defeat traffic signals 462-0614 photographs social one to the breastplate the worst and the best coupons luck dog trench warfare the night I fucked my alarm clock when I think of myself dead Christmas eve, alone there once was a woman who put her head into an oven beds, toilets, you and me--- this then--- imagination and reality stolen the meek have inherited the insane always loved me Big Max trapped it's the way you play the game on the continent 12:18 a.m. yellow cab how come you're not unlisted? weather report clean old man something a plate glass window junkies 99 to one the crunch a horse with greenblue eyes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THREE Scarlet red up and down like a flower in the rain light brown huge ear rings she came out of the bathroom a killer longshot the promise waving and waving goodbye liberty don't touch the girls dark shades prayer in bad weather melancholia a stethoscope case eat your hear out the retreat I made a mistake

FOUR girls in pantyhose up your yellow river artists: I have shit stains in my underwear too Hawley's leaving town an unkind poem the bee the most ah . . . the girl on the bus stop bench I'm getting back to where I was a lovely couple the strangest sight you ever did see--- in a neighborhood of murder private first class love is a dog from hell my groupie now, if you were teaching creative writing the good life the Greek my comrades soul a change of habit $$$$$$ sitting in a sandwich joint doom and siesta time as crazy as I ever was sex dead now twins the place didn't look bad the little girls rain or shine cold plums girls coming home some picnic bedpans the good loser an art the girls at the green hotel a good one shit time madness a 56 year old poem the beautiful young girl walking past the graveyard--- beer artist my old man fear little tigers everywhere after the reading: about cranes a gold pocket watch beach trip one for the shoeshine man