A .45 to pay the rent -- Doing time with public enemy no. 1 -- Scenes from the big time -- Nut ward just east of Hollywood -- Would you suggest writing as a career? -- The great Zen wedding -- Reunion -- Cunt and Kant and a happy home -- Goodbye Watson -- Great poets die in steaming pots of shit -- My stay in the poet's cottage -- The stupid Christs -- Too sensitive -- Rape! Rape! -- An evil town -- Love it or leave it -- A dollar and twenty cents -- No stockings -- A quiet conversation piece -- Beer and poets and talk -- I shot a man in Reno -- A rain of women -- Night streets of madness -- Purple as an iris -- Eyes like the sky -- One for Walter Lowenfels -- Notes of a potential suicide -- Notes on the pest -- A bad trip -- Animal crackers in my soup -- A popular man -- Flower horse -- The big pot game -- The blanket.