What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire Book

	my father and the bum	17
	legs, hips and behind	18
	igloo	20
	the mice	22
	my garden	24
	legs and white thighs	25
	Mademoiselle from Armentieres	26
	my father's big-time fling	29
	the bakers of 1935	31
	the people	35
	the pretty girl who rented rooms	36
	too soon	38
	canned heat?	40
	Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939	43
	scene from 1940:	46
	my big moment	47
	daylight saving time	50
	the railroad yard	51
	horseshit	52
	man's best friend	54
	the sensitive, young poet	56
	hunger	58
	the first one	61
	the night I saw George Raft in Vegas	63
	no title	65
	too many blacks	66
	white dog	68
	blue beads and bones	69
	ax and blade	71
	some notes on Bach and Haydn	73
	born to lose	76
	Phillipe's 1950	78
	in the lobby	79
	he knows us all	81
	victory!	82
	more argument	84
	wind the clock	87
	what?	88
	she comes from somewhere	89
	lifedance	90
	the bells	91
	full moon	93
	everywhere, everywhere	94
	about a trip to Spain	95
	Van Gogh	96
	Vallejo	98
	when the violets roar at the sun	99
	the professionals	100
	the 8 count concerto	102
	an afternoon in February	104
	crickets	106
	the angel who pushed his wheelchair	108
	the circus of death	111
	the man?	114
	Christmas poem to a man in jail	115
	snake eyes?	119
	my friends down at the corner:	121
	smiling, shining, singing	122
	Bruckner	124
	this moment	126
	one more good one	127
	you do it while you're killing flies	133
	the 12 hour night	134
	plants which easily winter kills	137
	the last poetry reading	139
	probably so	143
	assault	144
	raw with love	148
	wide and moving	150
	demise	151
	the pact	153
	75 million dollars	155
	butterflies	157
	4 Christs	159
	$180 gone	162
	blue head of death	164
	young men	166
	the meaning of it all	167
	guess who?	169
	I want a mermaid	170
	an unusual place	172
	in this city now-	174
	Captain Goodwine	177
	morning love	180
	an old jockey	182
	hard times on Carlton Way	184
	we needed him	186
	Nana	188
	poor Mimi	189
	a boy and his dog	192
	the dangerous ladies	194
	sloppy love	196
	winter: 44th year	203
	Hollywood Ranch Market	204
	rape	207
	gone away	211
	note left on the dresser by a lady friend:	213
	legs	215
	the artist	217
	revolt in the ranks	219
	life of the king	221
	the silver mirror	223
	hunchback	225
	me and Capote	227
	the savior: 1970	230
	la femme finie	233
	beast	234
	artistic selfishness	236
	my literary fly	237
	memory	239
	Carlton Way off Western Ave	241
	at the zoo	243
	coke blues	244
	nobody home	245
	woman in the supermarket	247
	fast track	249
	hanging there on the wall	251
	the hookers, the madmen and the doomed	253
	looking for Jack	255
	apprentices	257
	38,000-to-one	259
	a touch of steel	261
	brown and solemn	263
	time	264
	nobody knows the trouble I've seen	266
	the way it works	268
	bright lights and serpents	270
	mean and stingy	272
	$100	274
	this particular war	276
	German bar	277
	floor job	278
	the icecream people	280
	like a cherry seed in the throat	282
	the ordinary cafe of the world	285
	on shaving	287
	school days	291
	neither a borrower nor a lender be	293
	sometimes even putting a nickel into a parking meter feels good-	297
	Mahler	299
	fellow countryman	300
	the young man on the bus stop bench	303
	computer class	305
	image	309
	the crunch (2)	312
	I'll send you a postcard	315
	bravo!	316
	downtown	318
	the blue pigeon	320
	combat primer	321
	thanks for that	323
	they arrived in time	324
	odd	326
	an interlude	328
	anonymity	330
	what's it all mean?	332
	one-to-five	333
	insanity	337
	farewell my lovely	339
	comments upon my last book of poesy:	341
	a correction to a lady of poesy:	343
	Beethoven conducted his last symphony while totally deaf	346
	on the sidewalk and in the sun	348
	what do they want?	350
	I hear all the latest hit tunes	352
	am I the only one who suffers thus?	354
	on lighting a cigar	358
	the cigarette of the sun	361
	to lean back into it	363
	dog fight 1990	365
	I used to feel sorry for Henry Miller	367
	locked in	369
	wasted	372
	Sunday lunch at the Holy Mission	374
	slaughter	375
	a vote for the gentle light	377
	be alone	379
	I inherit	381
	another day	384
	tabby cat	386
	the gamblers	388
	the crowd	389
	trouble in the night	391
	3 old men at separate tables	393
	the singer	395
	stuck with it	397
	action on the corner	400
	no guru	402
	in this cage some songs are born	404
	my movie	405
	a new war	407
	roll the dice	408