The weight of the world      is love. Under the burden      of solitude, under the burden      of dissatisfaction      the weight, the weight we carry      is love.…

Cool black night thru redwoodscars parked outside in shadebehind the gate, stars dim abovethe ravine, a fire burning by the sideporch and a few tired souls hunched overin black leather…

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.      In…

The air is dark, the night is sad,I lie sleepless and I groan.Nobody cares when a man goes mad:He is sorry, God is glad.Shadow changes into bone. Every shadow has…

I hope my good old asshole holds out60 years it’s been mostly OKTho in Bolivia a fissure operation     survived the altiplano hospital– a little blood, no polyps, occasionallya small hemorrhoidactive,…

In nineteen hundred forty-nineChina was won by Mao Tse-tungChiang Kai-shek’s army ran awayThey were waiting there in Thailand yesterday Supported by the CIAPushing junk down Thailand way First they stole…

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January         17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the…

Now mind is clearas a cloudless sky.Time then to make ahome in wilderness. What have I done butwander with my eyesin the trees? So I will build:  wife,family, and seekfor neighbors.…

For               Carl Solomon                    I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by       madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn       looking for an…

Please master can I touch your cheeckplease master can I kneel at  your feetplease master can I loosen your blue pantsplease master can I gaze at your golden haired bellyplease master…