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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire

    My Father And The Bum - pg. 17 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Legs, Hips And Behind - pg. 18
    Igloo - pg. 20 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Mice - pg. 22
    My Garden - pg. 24
    Legs And White Thighs - pg. 25 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Legs And White Thighs - pg. 25 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Mademoiselle From Armentieres - pg. 26
    My Father's Big-Time Fling - pg. 29
    The Bakers Of 1935 - pg. 31
    The People - pg. 35
    The Pretty Girl Who Rented Rooms - pg. 36 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Too Soon - pg. 38
    Canned Heat? - pg. 40
    Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939 - pg. 43
    Scene From 1940 - pg. 46
    My Big Moment - pg. 47 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Daylight Saving Time - pg. 50 - [1972 manuscript]
    The Railroad Yard - pg. 51 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Horseshit - pg. 52
    Man's Best Friend - pg. 54
    The Sensitive, Young Poet - pg. 56
    Hunger - pg. 58
    The First One - pg. 61
    The Night I Saw George Raft In Vegas - pg. 63
    No Title - pg. 65
    Too Many Blacks - pg. 66
    White Dog - pg. 68 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Blue Beads And Bones - pg. 69 - [Unknown date manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Ax And Blade - pg. 71
    Some Notes On Bach And Hayden - pg. 73
    Born To Lose - pg. 76 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Phillipe's 1950 - pg. 78
    In The Lobby - pg. 79
    He Knows Us All - pg. 81
    Victory - pg. 82 - [Unknown date manuscript - differs from collected version]
    More Argument - pg. 84
    Wind The Clock - pg. 87
    What? - pg. 88
    She Comes From Somewhere - pg. 89 - [1974 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Lifedance - pg. 90
    The Bells - pg. 91 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Full Moon - pg. 93 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Everywhere, Everywhere - pg. 94
    About A Trip To Spain - pg. 95
    Van Gogh - pg. 96
    Vallejo - pg. 98
    When The Violets Roar At The Sun - pg. 99 - [1971 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Professionals - pg. 100 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The 8 Count Concerto - pg. 102
    An Afternoon In February - pg. 104 - [1974 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Crickets - pg. 106 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Angel Who Pushed His Wheelchair - pg. 108 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Circus Of Death - pg. 111
    The Man? - pg. 114
    Christmas Poem To A Man In Jail - pg. 115
    Snake Eyes? - pg. 119
    My Friends Down At The Corner - pg. 121
    Smiling, Shining, Singing - pg. 122
    Bruckner - pg. 124
    This Moment - pg. 126
    One More Good One - pg. 127
    Introduction to chapter 2 - pg. 131 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    You Do It While You're Killing Flies - pg. 133
    12 Hour Night - pg. 134
    Plants Which Easily Winter Kills - pg. 137
    The Last Poetry Reading - pg. 139
    Probably So - pg. 143 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Assault - pg. 144
    Raw With Love - pg. 148
    Wide And Moving - pg. 150 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Demise - pg. 151 - [1973 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Pact - pg. 153 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    75 Million Dollars - pg. 155
    Butterflies - pg. 157 - [1974 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    4 Christs - pg. 159 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    $180 Gone - pg. 162
    The Blue Head Of Death - pg. 164
    Young Men - pg. 166
    The Meaning Of It All - pg. 167 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Guess Who? - pg. 169 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    I Want A Mermaid - pg. 170
    An Unusual Place - pg. 172
    In This City Now - pg. 174 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Captain Goodwine - pg. 177 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Captain Goodwine - pg. 177 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Morning Love - pg. 180 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    An Old Jockey - pg. 182 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Hard Times On Carlton Way - pg. 184
    We Needed Him - pg. 186 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Nana - pg. 188
    Poor Mimi - pg. 189
    A Boy And His Dog - pg. 192
    The Dangerous Ladies - pg. 194 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Sloppy Love - pg. 196 - [1974 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Winter: 44th Year - pg. 203
    Hollywood Ranch Market - pg. 204 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Rape - pg. 207 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Gone Away - pg. 211 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Note Left On The Dresser By A Lady Friend - pg. 213 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Legs - pg. 215 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Artist - pg. 217
    Revolt In The Ranks - pg. 219
    Life Of The King - pg. 221
    The Silver Mirror - pg. 223 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Hunchback - pg. 225 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Me And Capote - pg. 227
    The Savior: 1970 - pg. 230
    La Femme Finie - pg. 233 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Beast - pg. 234
    Artistic Selfishness - pg. 236 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    My Literary Fly - pg. 237 - [1971 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Memory - pg. 239
    Carlton Way Off Western Ave. - pg. 241
    At The Zoo - pg. 243
    The Giraffes - pg. 243
    Coke Blues - pg. 244
    Nobody Home - pg. 245
    Woman In The Supermarket - pg. 247 - [1973 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Fast Track - pg. 249 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Hanging There On The Wall - pg. 251
    The Hookers, The Madmen And The Doomed - pg. 253
    Looking For Jack - pg. 255 - [Unknown date manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Apprentices - pg. 257 - [1974 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    38,000 To One - pg. 259
    A Touch Of Steel - pg. 261 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Brown And Solemn - pg. 263
    Time - pg. 264 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - pg. 266
    The Way It Works - pg. 268
    Bright Lights And Serpents - pg. 270 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Mean And Stingy - pg. 272 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    $100 - pg. 274
    This Particular War - pg. 276 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    German Bar - pg. 277
    Floor Job - pg. 278
    The Ice Cream People - pg. 280
    Like A Cherry Seed In The Throat - pg. 282 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Ordinary Cafe Of The World - pg. 285 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    On Shaving - pg. 287
    School Days - pg. 291
    Neither A Borrower Nor A Lender Be - pg. 293
    Sometimes Even Putting A Nickel Into A Parking Meter Feels Good - pg. 297 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Mahler - pg. 299
    Fellow Countryman - pg. 300
    The Young Man On The Bus Stop Bench - pg. 303
    Computer Class - pg. 305
    Image - pg. 309
    The Crunch (2) - pg. 312
    I'll Send You A Postcard - pg. 315 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Bravo - pg. 316 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Downtown - pg. 318 - [1977 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Blue Pigeon - pg. 320 - [1975 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Combat Primer - pg. 321 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Thanks For That - pg. 323
    They Arrived In Time - pg. 324
    Odd - pg. 326
    An Interlude - pg. 328
    Anonymity - pg. 330
    What's It All Mean? - pg. 332 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    One-To-Five - pg. 333
    Insanity - pg. 337
    Farewell My Lovely - pg. 339
    Comments On My Last Book Of Poesy - pg. 341
    A Correction To A Lady Of Posey - pg. 343
    Beethoven Conducted His Last Symphony While Totally Deaf - pg. 346
    On The Sidewalk And In The Sun - pg. 348 - [1972 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    What Do They Want? - pg. 350
    I Hear All The Latest Hit Tunes - pg. 352
    Am I The Only One Who Suffers Thus? - pg. 354
    On Lighting A Cigar - pg. 358
    The Cigarette Of The Sun - pg. 361
    To Lean Back Into It - pg. 363
    Dog Fight 1990 - pg. 365 - [1980 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    I Used To Feel Sorry For Henry Miller - pg. 367
    Locked In - pg. 369
    Wasted - pg. 372
    Sunday Lunch At The Holy Mission - pg. 374
    Slaughter - pg. 375
    A Vote For The Gentle Light - pg. 377
    Be Alone - pg. 379 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    I Inherit - pg. 381
    Another Day - pg. 384
    Tabby Cat - pg. 386 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Gamblers - pg. 388 - [1979 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    The Crowd - pg. 389
    Troubles In The Night - pg. 391
    3 Old Men At Separate Tables - pg. 393
    The Singer - pg. 395 - [1976 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    Stuck With It - pg. 397
    Action On The Corner - pg. 400 - [1978 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    No Guru - pg. 402 - [1974 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    In This Cage Some Songs Are Born - pg. 404
    My Movie - pg. 405 - [1979 manuscript - differs from collected version]
    A New War - pg. 407
    Roll The Dice - pg. 408

       

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