Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems Book

	one writer's funeral	15
	beagle	17
	a smile to remember	18
	where was Jane?	19
	the fish with yellow eyes and green fins leaps into the volcano	21
	1966 Volkswagen minivan	23
	his cap	25
	luck from a kitchen	27
	it was just a little while ago	29
	the fight game	30
	a lady who wants to help?	33
	Carson McCullers	35
	a happening	36
	albums	38
	makeover	40
	centuries of lies	41
	too tough to care	43
	funny man	45
	a fan	48
	Christ in his manger	49
	the priest	54
	1810-1856	56
	back to the machine gun	57
	love dead like a crushed fly	58
	it beats love	64
	the automobiles of DeLongpre	65
	40 years ago	66
	the counter revolution	70
	a definition	75
	Gothic and etc	78
	Brando	80
	rogue's gallery	82
	media	85
	I was wrong	88
	up, down and all around	91
	the main course	92
	it's all music	95
	my cat, the writer	96
	one for the road	99
	room 22	100
	she caught it one the fly	104
	a drink to that	105
	sit and endure	107
	out of the money	108
	4 cops	110
	my girlfriend says it's all so easy	112
	American Literature II	114
	heartache	115
	I cause some remarkable creativity	117
	the cosmic joke	119
	the death of the snowman	121
	shut out	126
	the machine gunner	127
	2 deaths	129
	schoolyards of forever	130
	beaujolais jadot	133
	bar chatter	135
	punched-out	137
	counterpoint	139
	3 pairs of panties	140
	this drunk	141
	Casablanca	143
	the saddest words I ever heard	146
	the light	148
	the closing of the bottomless bar	150
	fame of a sort	152
	never look	153
	now the professors	155
	the hatchet job	158
	shack jobs	160
	ground zero	161
	my telephone	162
	exactly right	164
	progress	167
	Carter	169
	two cats asleep downstairs and death itself no problem	172
	the pro	173
	pain like a black-and-white snapshot	176
	Life, Death, Love, Art	178
	sometimes when you get the blues there's a reason	186
	the Word	187
	my nudie dancer	189
	I can't see anything	198
	not exactly the sun	199
	the doomed lady poet	201
	the eternal horseplayers	203
	first day, first job	204
	long sad story	207
	the theory of the leisure class	209
	divorce	210
	no wonder	213
	macho hell	215
	you know who's best	217
	he died April 9, 1553	218
	pick-up	220
	it's all right	222
	one of those crazy nights	223
	urban war	225
	good pay	227
	panasonic	231
	out of place	232
	a great place, here	234
	horses don't bet on people and neither do I ...	236
	my failure	238
	in memory of a dead jock	240
	repeat	242
	now you know why we kiss the wall	244
	that's who sent them	246
	it's just me	247
	then I know why	251
	her only son	253
	the wrong way	255
	I move to the city of San Pedro	259
	be angry at San Pedro	263
	lost in San Pedro	265
	justice	267
	a boor	269
	out of the dark	273
	for the foxes	274
	poem for Brigitte Bardot	277
	having the flu and with nothing else to do	279
	a time to remember	280
	"I demand a little respect"	281
	pink silks	283
	milk a cow and you get milk	285
	oh, to be young in 1942!	286
	the condition book	289
	the kid from Santiago	290
	room service	292
	passport	294
	darlings of the word	296
	KFAC	299
	it is good to know when you are done	301
	TB	303
	a song with no end	305
	the lucky ones	306
	spelling it out on my computer	308
	crazy as a fox	309
	cats and you and me	310
	they need what they need	312
	hello, how are you?	313
	one thirty-six a.m	314
	harbor freeway south	316
	gamblers all	319
	guitars	320
	no man is an island	325
	an animal poem	327
	eulogy	329
	two writers	331
	small conversation in the afternoon with John Fante	335
	girl on the escalator	336
	one learns	338
	the beginning of a brief love affair	340
	melodies that echo	341
	self-inflicted wounds	343
	racetrack parking lot at the end of the day	345
	moving toward what?	348
	if I had failed to make the struggle	350
	wine pulse	352