Poems

Shoes when you’re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you’re old it’s just a […]

Short Order 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. […]

Show Biz I can’t have it and you can’t have it and we won’t get it so don’t bet on it or even think about it […]

Sleep 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 […]

small conversation in the afternoon with John Fante he said, “I was working in Hollywood when Faulkner was working in Hollywood and he was the worst: […]

So Now? the words have come and gone, I sit ill. the phone rings, the cats sleep. Linda vacuums. I am waiting to live, waiting to […]

Some People some people never go crazy. me, sometimes I’ll lie down behind the couch for 3 or 4 days. they’ll find me there. it’s Cherub, […]

Somebody god I got the sad blue blues, this woman sat there and she said are you really Charles Bukowski? and I said forget that I […]

Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You . . . we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it […]

splash the illusion is that you are simply reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem. this is a beggar’s knife. […]