| 2 buddies | p. 17 |
| Saturday afternoon | p. 20 |
| young love | p. 24 |
| lioness | p. 28 |
| dinner, pain and transport | p. 29 |
| love for the first whore | p. 31 |
| good times | p. 35 |
| Jane and Prince | p. 38 |
| a place to hang out | p. 40 |
| to Jane Cooney Baker, died 1-22-62 | p. 42 |
| I was her lover | p. 44 |
| beauty gone | p. 45 |
| dogfight over L.A. | p. 46 |
| event | p. 52 |
| all that | p. 53 |
| the stranger | p. 54 |
| the other room | p. 55 |
| the death of an era | p. 56 |
| for some friends | p. 59 |
| broken | p. 61 |
| wall clock | p. 62 |
| the beer bottle blow | p. 63 |
| some of my fathers | p. 69 |
| black sun | p. 77 |
| the players | p. 78 |
| batting slump | p. 79 |
| somewhere it's 12:41 a.m | p. 80 |
| the reply | p. 81 |
| searching for what? | p. 82 |
| the hero and the shortstop | p. 84 |
| my favorite movie | p. 85 |
| share the pain | p. 87 |
| the old pinch hitter | p. 89 |
| ah, ah, ah | p. 90 |
| Edith sent us | p. 91 |
| we're all gonna make it | p. 93 |
| hymn from the hurricane | p. 97 |
| soundless | p. 101 |
| miracle man | p. 102 |
| little theater in Hollywood | p. 104 |
| novels | p. 106 |
| pleased to meet you | p. 108 |
| yes, I am | p. 110 |
| now she's free | p. 112 |
| we get along | p. 113 |
| swinging from the hook | p. 115 |
| AIDS | p. 116 |
| flight time to nowhere | p. 117 |
| a woman in orange | p. 119 |
| a poem for swingers | p. 121 |
| backups | p. 122 |
| merry, merry | p. 123 |
| liberated women and liberated man | p. 125 |
| a place to go | p. 127 |
| age and youth | p. 128 |
| a good show | p. 132 |
| popcorn in the dark | p. 133 |
| a little spot of senseless yellow | p. 134 |
| Toulouse | p. 135 |
| Bruckner (2) | p. 137 |
| in dreams begin responsibilities | p. 139 |
| uncorwned | p. 141 |
| what we need | p. 142 |
| Chatterton took rat poison and left the rest of us in peace | p. 145 |
| Jack | p. 151 |
| upon phoning an x-wife not seen for 20 years | p. 152 |
| big time loser | p. 153 |
| like a movie | p. 155 |
| an unusual woman | p. 157 |
| place pink Porsche | p. 158 |
| the arrangement | p. 159 |
| polish sausage | p. 161 |
| down by the sea, the beautiful sea | p. 163 |
| the guitar player | p. 165 |
| social butterfly | p. 169 |
| a fan letter | p. 171 |
| I'm a failure | p. 172 |
| too dark | p. 174 |
| this is fact | p. 176 |
| there's one in every bar | p. 177 |
| the beautiful rush | p. 178 |
| over-population | p. 179 |
| an old love | p. 181 |
| beds, bathrooms, you and me | p. 183 |
| puzzle | p. 185 |
| hot dog | p. 187 |
| the fall | p. 190 |
| on bums and heroes | p. 193 |
| running on empty | p. 199 |
| this habit | p. 201 |
| madness? | p. 202 |
| it's difficult when bananas eat monkeys | p. 204 |
| old man with a cane | p. 205 |
| empty goblet | p. 207 |
| an interview | p. 209 |
| poem, poem, poem, poem | p. 213 |
| the soulless life | p. 214 |
| the x-con | p. 217 |
| the way it is now | p. 218 |
| dead dog | p. 219 |
| 20 bucks | p. 222 |
| a lost soul | p. 224 |
| compassion | p. 226 |
| he also flosses every day | p. 227 |
| more mail | p. 229 |
| look here! | p. 231 |
| we can't | p. 232 |
| terrorists | p. 233 |
| big time | p. 235 |
| here we go again | p. 238 |
| Manx | p. 239 |
| the best man are strongest alone | p. 241 |
| another love poem | p. 243 |
| the Spanish gate | p. 245 |
| no dice | p. 247 |
| stark dead | p. 248 |
| hello | p. 249 |
| lunch | p. 250 |
| four young gang-bangers | p. 255 |
| I don't care | p. 257 |
| Royal Standard | p. 259 |
| Mother and Princess Tina | p. 260 |
| late night | p. 262 |
| night sweats | p. 263 |
| locks | p. 264 |
| token drunk | p. 271 |
| Butch Van Gogh | p. 274 |
| I don't want Cleopatra | p. 276 |
| the strange workings of the dark like | p. 277 |
| open all night | p. 279 |
| come back | p. 281 |
| my father wanted me to be a mechanical draftsman but | p. 287 |
| rest period | p. 289 |
| swivel chair | p. 290 |
| AtandT | p. 294 |
| loosely loosely | p. 296 |
| fungoes | p. 298 |
| Schubert | p. 300 |
| problems in the checkout line | p. 302 |
| troubles in the night | p. 304 |
| where to put it | p. 306 |
| Chinaski | p. 308 |
| hummingbird chance | p. 310 |
| I meet a vegetarian | p. 311 |
| the Nile runs north | p. 313 |
| all god's children got trouble | p. 314 |
| my 3 best friends | p. 316 |
| my doctor | p. 318 |
| a certain pride here | p. 322 |
| a screening | p. 323 |
| fame | p. 325 |
| thoughts on being 71 | p. 327 |
| at the end of the day | p. 329 |
| huh | p. 331 |
| until | p. 333 |
| short story | p. 334 |
| as much as I hate to use the "F" word | p. 336 |
| competition | p. 338 |
| raw | p. 340 |
| hardly Nirvana | p. 341 |
| garden talk | p. 342 |
| a computer now | p. 343 |
| a day so flat you could roll marbles on it | p. 347 |
| lazy in San Pedro | p. 349 |
| it's slow tonight | p. 350 |
| an answer to an eleventh grade student in Philadelphia | p. 353 |
| the yellow pencil | p. 354 |
| a grounder to the shortstop | p. 359 |
| don't sit under the apple tree with anybody else but me | p. 360 |
| secret laughter | p. 361 |
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