Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.