Dallas: dreamt my father was saying to me:
"That's the third time in the last week
your memory has slipped."
Finished Papillon.

Left Dallas 1:30, to Abilene
to Odessa, where the storm caught up
and my pants froze on the north side.
Greyhound to Tucson. Hitch out of there.
Home 11 a.m. Dallas-SF 46 hours.

Alan brought me a pint of La Boheme port
from NY. Camembert and onion.
The Cockettes midnight show.
(The solos were very moving.)

A long walk to the de Young.
Sardines in mustard sauce, camembert, onion,
bouillon. Futzie Nutzle show at SF Museum of Art.
Alan and I interviewed on street by WMPX.

Heavy fog. Wrote two prose poems.
A fruit cake in the mail from Janet.
Bob gave me six white crosses and a Chinese
calendar. Sat in front of the big library

an hour and a half. Patchen died.
Chicken bouillon, bread and butter. No cash.
Berryman died. A ride down Market Street
with a beautiful go-go dancer
from Escanaba, Michigan.

Cash. Lunch at the Sincere cafe.
Afternoon in Bohemian Cigar Store. Vodka, cheese,
cucumber, sardines at 1544 California.
The World in the Evening.

Drove through the Berkeley hills:
Snow on Mt. Diablo. Went to the beach
below Playland for a last look at the Pacific
with Bob.

Left SF at noon with Dec. To Needles
and Parker, Arizona. Left Parker, drove all night
to Aspen. To Denver. Left Dec. Searched by
police. Finally out of Colorado.

Slept in a truck near Maxwell, Nebraska.
To Iowa City. Mt. Gilead by 6:00, smoke curling
from all the little chimneys.
Put on a new toilet seat.

To Ann Arbor. Starkie's Rimbaud.
Ted read. Snow. Poulenc. Tom Raworth in town.
Dinner at the Carrigans'.
Translated Cocteau's "Spring," 1303 Wilmot.
Ray and Betsi. Early piano works of

John Cage. Looked at a Œ54 Chevy. Lustra again.
Looked at a Œ56 Cadillac in Ypsilanti.
Sirloin steak, Spanish sherry. "Fire
in the protocol engines." A new Sobesky

painting. Scriabin "Etudes."
Dec and Bill in from Colorado. Talk about
the mountains. Leaves at "Southeast Asia" stage.
Alan in from NY. To Hans Richter show
with Tan, and occult dinner.

Ferdinand. Mushrooming near Ypsilanti.
Summer. Fishing up the Huron with Petrie.
To the arboretum with Tan. Broiled chicken livers
in olive juice. Messiaen. New pure white kitten,

six kinds of cheese. Tan; Jan; Alex Smith in
from the west, bearing two Ruscha books.
Rameau, sunlight. Rain all day. Read
Elizabethans, played Robert Johnson.

Letter from Dec on the Frying Pan River.
Martha Cutler. Fishing with Hawk.
Saw a midget. A drive in the country. Goulash.
Portraits of Handel from Ray in London.

Night swim in the Huron.
Left AA at 7:00, NY at 10 a.m. To Brooklyn
to get trunk. Met Marc, Alan, Kit, Fran,
and Craig in Manhattan: St. Adrian's.
Bought eight pints La Boheme. Dinner

in Chinatown (21 Mott).
Left NY at 7, AA at 9 a.m.
Sleeping on roof all week. Kit left.
John Cowper Powys. Dirty pictures from Bob Harris
in the mail. Dinner in Detroit with Jan

(Greektown): lamb and limas.
Afternoon on Belle Isle. Curry. Swam in pond.
Bettina Roe. Bright August weather. Canaletto.
Martinis with Tan. "Août 72."

Warsaw drizzle. Khan drawing.
First goodbye party at Junger's. Goodbye, Les.
Sold books. Hot, red sky. Strange Faeces
in the mail. Green corn feast at Frayer's.
Jefferson Airplane at Cobo. Cowslip wine.
Left AA, to Mt. G. To New Jersey.
To Manhattan on Erie Lackawannna. Met Savage
and wandered. A pint on Sheridan Square.
To NJ. Sea Island park. Hiked the Great Swamp.

Back to Ohio. F.T. Prince poems. To AA
for Blues-Jazz festival. Drove to upper Michigan
with M.C. Keats' Letters in gold motel room.
Drove across Michigan and Wisconsin to Duluth.
Drove into Hibbing for Bob Dylan homage.

Visited great aunts Eva and Lucy near Reedsburg, Wis.
Back to AA. Light, misty autumn. Rosellini's
Socrates with D. Poole. Winter clothes for NY.
To my sister's in NJ. On to NY, 40 Horatio
(Marc's). The White Horse.

Morton St. pier with Marc and Craig.
Walked up 5th Avenue to Central Park. Beer
at the zoo. Walked to Wall St., Trinity church,
old pier with Marc and Alan.

Rain. Proofreading work. Corned beef hash
on Horatio. The Circle Line around Manhattan.
Huge potato supper. The White Horse.
Clancy's with Godfrey. Midtown,

Tolstoy, chess. Prowled. Letter
from Jayne in South America. Dinner with Godfrey
and Rebecca Wright. Sunny and cold October.
Alan and Fran came by with cannoles.

Read Balzac. Drinks at Gabriel's.
Worked four hours on Wall St. sorting
corporate brochures. Uptown to see
de Koonings and the baby gorilla
in the park.

Chicken at Alan's. Party politico
on 9th St. Home in bed. Walked to the Hudson.
Walked through Central Park to 77th St.
to see Audubon originals.

To Brasserie at 4 a.m. (steak tartare)
and a ride down 5th Avenue in a garbage truck.
Rain. All the ailanthus leaves down.
Proofed at Jefferson Market library.
Walked around with Jayne. Colombian hash.

Keats' birthday. Walked around below
Houston St. Pound dead. Coughing and hacking.
Read in Abingdon Square. Dinner at the Bistro,
a pint on Sheridan Square. Chamber music

at Historical Society. Old twins
on 8th Avenue. Pool at Julian's.
Moved into Hotel Christopher. Solid rain.
The White Horse. Sailing Alone Around
the World. New Melitta

and Jamaican High Mountain Supreme.
Walked to east side. McSorley's.
M&M Bar on Little West 12th. Rain.
Corelli, Purcell. Sewed clothes.
To Soho galleries. Giant.

Brie, bread, and onion lunch. J. Bowles.
More rain. Wind blew the orange juice over
on fire escape during the night. Fanelli's.
First snow. Begged work at Dover Books
and Knopf. The Rotterdam docked

across the way. Read Arthur Morrison,
Hugo Crackenthorpe. Dinner at Godfrey's.
Brodey came by. Lackawanna to NJ. Snow,
the Times. Back to NY. Chumley's.

Bright, cold all afternoon at McSorley's.
Quiet Thanksgiving city. Times Square with Marc
and Art. Ali fight in 5 Bros. bar. Cloudy
and luminous. Bought cheese. Wrote poems.

Soup at Brigitte's. Reading Voltaire.
Diane Arbus show at MOMA. Artichoke hearts
and sausage dinner. Snow and sleet.
Watched a venezuelan freighter loading
at Pier 40. The White Horse.

Knocked on Celia's door.
Bought an old overcoat on Avenue B.
Dinner at the hotel. Knocked on Celia's door.
Dirty picture from Bob Harris in the mail.

Bronx zoo with Foley, Alan and Fran.
Dinner in Chinatown. Alan and I walked
to Times Square and back. White sky.
In bed most of the day. Browsed

in late Cantos. Watched the Rotterdam
back out into the Hudson. Walked across Canal St.
Xmas lights in the fog. Coffee at the Roma.
Home and took a Xmas tree. Dawn at the moment:
foghorns, food bags hang from hotel windows.

Caviar and Brie lunch. Rain. Boiled potatoes
and fish cakes. No money. Gray and wet. Wrote letters.
Drew hotel window. Pennies: rolls and tobacco.
Moved out of Hotel Christopher.

Schneeman show at 98 Greene St. More rain.
Bacon and eggs with Foley. Walked down 7th Ave.
Phoenix Bookstore, fish market windows. Met Marc
at Nathan's, looked at shoes on 8th St.
Very cold. Stared deep into Foley's eyes.

The Messiah at 5th Avenue Presbyterian
with Alan. Shopped along 8th St. Journals
of Gilbert White at Marlboro. Drew tile pattern.
Bought Xmas gifts. Dinner at Godfrey's.

To Millington on Lackawanna.
All the family and good food. Xmas wet
and gray. Turkey dinner at 4. A walk
with M.C. Gray trees, white trees.

Back to NY. The Discreet Charm
of the Bourgeoisie. Sardines and Spanish wine.
Kurt Weil revue at Theatre de Lys
with M.C. Pink Teacup for dinner.

Moved to 111 Waverly Place, top garrett.
Drinks with Jayne at the Alley Cat.
Roy Orbison et al. at Madison Sq. Garden.
Worked all afternoon with Craig, moving

office equipment from 59th St. to 10th St.
Dinner with Foley. Many visitors.
Very off-white, cool and swampy.
Napped, read. Many visitors. 53 degrees.