Slouching Toward Nirvana Book

	A 4th of July in the early 30's	3
	Without stress or agony	9
	My close call	12
	Clothes cost money	13
	An easy way to die	17
	We have hand guns around here	19
	Making do	20
	Rare indeed	27
	The poet	28
	Bolero	31
	A winter memory	34
	Living in a great big way	36
	Then and now	37
	How did they get their job?	44
	Paper and people	45
	Writer's block	49
	Disorder and early sorrow	51
	In this place	54
	The uninitiated	55
	Cicada	57
	Never interrupt a writer at work	58
	Oh my	59
	Meeting them	60
	No eulogies, please	62
	Finality	64
	The machinery of loss	65
	Damsels of the night	69
	Forewarned	74
	She lost weight	75
	Military surplus	76
	A difficult woman	79
	Talk	81
	Where the action is real	83
	Academy award?	86
	Beach boys	88
	I'm no good	90
	Friend of the family	92
	Solving a crime before it begins	94
	Note for my wall	96
	The wine that roared	97
	2:07 a.m	101
	A clean, well-lighted place	105
	Do we really care?	108
	For crying out loud	111
	High school girls	113
	Emergency	115
	For a woman who might some day become a nun	116
	Some people ask for it	117
	Against the window pane	119
	An answer to a day's worth of mail	121
	New York, New York	122
	The knife waltz	125
	Dusty shoes	126
	Vulgar poem	128
	This one	134
	The big lonely night	140
	One a.m.	145
	The curse	147
	With his awful teeth	149
	Golden boy	151
	Surreal tangerines	153
	Little magazines and poetry chapbooks	155
	My buddy	156
	Last Friday night	158
	Open here	160
	A name is nothing if the named is nothing	161
	The stupidest thing I ever did	163
	You can't make a lion out of a butterfly	165
	I don't know about you but	168
	It's a drag just breathing	172
	A hard lesson	175
	A conversation to remember	177
	Picture show	178
	He played first base	179
	The suicide kid	181
	Snake eyes and faulty screams	183
	I fought them from the moment I saw light	184
	Now, Ezra	187
	Concession	189
	It	190
	Terror	191
	My rosy ass	193
	This is a bitter poem	196
	Poem for nobody	199
	Checkmate	201
	The tide	202
	To hell and back	210
	Something's knocking at the door	212
	Regardless	214
	The dandy	219
	I am a mole	221
	Somebody else	222
	IBM selectric	224
	Why oh why and oh why not?	227
	Movies	228
	No luck at all	229
	Good news	232
	Bedpan nightmare	234
	Robert	237
	Private screening	239
	As you slow down the mermaids look the other way	241
	Something new	243
	The swimming pool	244
	The great writer	246
	I used to think	247
	From the department of health	249
	Working out	251
	My friend William Burroughs	252
	A note upon starvation	254
	Poem for my 70th birthday	256
	You'll never know	257
	Joe	259
	Top gun	263
	It's strange	264
	Explosion	266
	Small talk	268
	Basic	270