had a benny and a big sexball amazing to describe in itself
watching Mardou and me in the infancy of our love and probably wondering why, or knowing it wouldn’t last, or seeing who it was would be hurt
We went home on the Third Street bus sadly through night and throb knock neons
lass
“Hey Hawk Taw, tell us that story again about the time you stole a taxicab and drove it clear to Manitoba, Canada – d’jever hear him tell that one, Cy?”
She went into some kind of gift shop and there was a man in a wheelchair there. (She wandered into a doorway with cages and green canaries in the glass, she wanted to touch the beads, watch goldfish, caress the old fat cat sunning on the floor, stand in the cool green parakeet jungle of the store high on the green out-of-this-world dart eyes of parrots swivelling witless necks to cake and burrow in the mad feather and to feel that definite communication from them of birdy terror, the electric spasms of their notice, s q u a w k, lawk, leek, and the man was extremely strange)
(On the sunny now lyrical Sunday morning after-rain sidewalk, Easter in Frisco and all the purple hats out and the lavender coats parading in the cool gusts and the little girls so tiny in their just whitened shoes and hopeful coats going slowly in the white hill streets, churches of old bells busy …
All Morn Sun wind flapped their tragic topcoats to the side, the boy bawling, their shadows on the street like shadows of gulls the color of handmade Italian cigars of deep brown stores at Columbus and Pacific, now the passage of a fishtail Cadillac in second gear headed for hilltop houses bay-viewing and some scented visit of relatives bringing the funny papers, news of old aunts, candy to some unhappy little boy waiting for Sunday to end, for the sun to cease pouring thru the French blinds and paling the potted plants but rather rain and Monday again and the joy of the woodfence alley where only last night poor Mardou’s almost lost.
the smile in the sound
– the gray day, the red bulblight, I had never heard such a story from such a soul except for great men I had known in my youth, great heroes of America I’d been buddies with, with whom I’d adventured and gone to jail and known in raggedy downs, the boys bent on curbstones seeing symbols in the saturated gutter, the Rimbauds and Verlaines of America on Times Square, kids – no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I’d roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity, the hugeness of her face now like the sudden vast Tiger head on a poster on the back of a woodfence in the smoky dumpyards Saturday no-school mornings, direct, beautiful, insave, in the rain. We hugged, we held close – it was like love now, I was amazed – we made it in the livingroom, gladly, in chairs, on the bed, slept entwined, satisfied – I would show her more sexuality –
…Mardou seen in this light, is a little brown body in a gray sheet bed in the slums of Telegraph Hill, huge figure in the history of the night yes but only one among many, the asexuality of the WORK – also the sudden gut joy of beer when the visions of great words in rhythmic order all in one giant archangel book go roaring thru my brain, so I lie in the dark also seeing also hearing the jargon of the future worlds – damajege eleout ekeke dhdkdk dldoud, —-d, ekeoeu dhdhdkehgyt – better not a more than lther ehe the macmurphy out of that dgardent that which stangely he doth mdodultkdip – baeseeaatra — poor examples because of mechanical needs of typing, the flow of river sounds, words, dark, leading to the future and attesting to the madness, hollowness, ring and roar of my wind which blessed or unblessed is where trees sing – in a funny wind – well-being believes he’ll go to heaven – a word to the wise is enough – “Smart went Crazy,” wrote Allen Ginsberg.
I’m hiding with her in the secret house of the night – Down finds us mystical in our shrouds, heart to heart – ‘My sister”’ I’d thought suddenly the first time I saw her –
with pictures of you that are warm and friendly (and loving) – and because of the anxieties we are experiencing but never speak of really, and are similar too –
a piece of communication making me suddenly by some majesty of her pen feel sorry for myself, seeing myself like her lost in the suffering ignorant sea of human life feeling distant from she who should be closest and not knowing (no not under the sun) why the distance instead is the feeling, the both of us entwined and lost in that, as under the sea –
here she comes padding to me across the Garden of Eden, and I reach up and help her down to my side on the soft bed, I pull her little body to me and it is warm, her warm spot is hot, I kiss her brown breasts both of them, I kiss her loveshoulders – she keepswith her lips going “ps ps ps” little kiss sounds where actually no contact is made with my face except when haphazardly while doing something else I do move it against her and her little ps ps kisses connect and are as sad and soft as when they don’t – it’s her little litany of night – and when she’s sick and we’re worried, the she takes me on her, on her arm, on mine—she services the mad unthinking beast – I spend long nights and many hours making her, finally I have her, I pray for it to come, I can hear her breathing harder, I hope against hope it’s time, a noise in the hall (or whoop of drunkards next door) takes her mind off and she can’t make it and laughs – but when she does make it I hear her crying, whimpering, the shuddering electrical female orgasm makes her sound like a little girl crying, moaning in the night, it lasts a good twenty seconds and when it’s over, she moans, “O why can’t it last longer,” and “O when will I when you do?” – “Soon now I bet,” I say, “you’re getting closer and closer” – sweating against her in the warm sad Frisco …
(fearing secretly the few times I had come into contact with the rough stubble-like quality of the pubic, which has Negroid and therefore a little rougher, tho not enough to make any difference, and the insides itself I should say the best, the richest, most fecund moist warm and full of hidden soft slidy mountains, also the pull and force of the muscles being so powerful she unknowing often vice-like closes over and makes a dam up and hurt, tho this I realized the other night, too late–_
Its too much. Beginning, as I say with the pushcart incident – the night we drank red wine at Dante’s and we’re in a drinking mood now both of us so disgusted – Yuri came with us, Ross Wallenstein was in there and maybe to show off to Mardou Yuri acted like a kid all night and kept hitting Wallenstein on the back of his head with little finger taps like goofing in a bar but Wallenstein (who’s always being beaten up by hoodlums because of this) turned around with a stiff death’s-head gaze with big eyes glaring behind glasses, his Christlike blue unshaven cheeks, staring ridgidly as tho the stare itself will floor Yuri, not speaking for a long time, finally saying, “Man, don’t bug me,” and turning back to his conversation with friends and Yuri does it again and Ross turns again the same pitiless awful subterranean sort of non-violent Mahatma Gandhi defense of some kind (which I’d suspected that first time he talked to me saying, “Are you a fag you talk like a fag” a remark coming from him so absurd because so I thought secretly 170 pounds to his 130 or 120 for God’s sake so I thought secretly “No you can’t fight this man he will only scream and yell and call cops and let you hit him again and haunt all your dreams, there is no way to put a subterranean down on the floor or for that matter put em down at all, they are the most unputdownable in this world and new culture”)
…the comment I’d made to Mardou about Yuri had been, after his leaving, “He’s just like that Mexican stud comes up there and grabs your last cigarettes,” both of us laughing because whenever she was at her lowest financial ebb, bang, somebody who needed a “mooch” was there –
locking up sharply not hearing the words but seeing them in the air
– walking along, at one point so irritable to my senses she stopped short on the rainy sidewalk and coolly said “I need a neckerchief” and turned to go into the store and I turned and followed her from reluctant ten feet back realizing I hadn’t known what was going on in my mind really over since Prince and Columbus and here we were on Market – while she’s in the store I keep haggling with myself, shall I just go now, I have my fare, just cut down the street swiftly and go home and when she comes out she’ll see you’re gone, she’ll know you broke the promise to go to the movies just like you broke a lot of promises but this time she’ll know you have a big male right to – but none of this is enough – I feel stabbed by Yuri – by Mardou I feel forsaken and shamed –




