You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)

Published as a poetry collection by Black Sparrow Press, 26/9/1986

Works in this Book

• O Tempora! O Mores! - pg. 145
• 16-Bit Intel 8088 Chip - pg. 103 - circa 1985
• 1813 - 1883 - pg. 13
• 3 A.M. Games - pg. 284
• A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat Is A Cat - pg. 237
• A Following - pg. 258
• A Funny Guy - pg. 124
• A Good Gang, After All - pg. 279
• A Good Time - pg. 51 - 1985
• A Magician, Gone - pg. 62 - 1984
• A Non-Urgent Poem - pg. 76 - circa 1984
• A Tragic Meeting - pg. 260
• About The PEN Conference - pg. 211 - 1986
• An Ordinary Poem - pg. 266
• Another Casualty - pg. 36
• Bad Times At The 3rd And Vermont Hotel - pg. 92
• Beasts Bounding Through Time - pg. 21
• Bumming With Jane - pg. 44
• Close To Greatness - pg. 133 - circa 1987
• Coffee - pg. 126
• Concrete - pg. 171
• Cornered - pg. 42
• Darkness - pg. 46 - circa 1988
• Death Sat On My Knee And Cracked With Laughter - pg. 141
• Downtown L.A. - pg. 32 - circa 1986
• Drive Through Hell - pg. 122
• Driving Test - pg. 38 - 1985
• Education - pg. 29 - circa 1986
• Emily Bukowski - pg. 153
• Escape - pg. 235 - 1985
• Everybody Talks Too Much - pg. 212
• Final Story - pg. 137 - 1985
• For My Ivy League Friends - pg. 89 - circa 1984
• For The Concerned - pg. 123
• Forget It - pg. 306
• Fractional Note - pg. 256
• Friends Within The Darkness - pg. 139
• From An Old Dog In His Cups - pg. 268
• Garbage - pg. 96
• Gay Paree? - pg. 175 - 1985
• Glenn Miller - pg. 152
• Gone - pg. 240 - circa 1992
• Hard Times - pg. 164 - 1985
• Help Wanted - pg. 290 - 1984
• Helping The Old - pg. 91
• Hot - pg. 281
• How Is Your Heart? - pg. 304
• Huh? - pg. 199
• I Meet The Famous Poet - pg. 241 - circa 1987
• I Thought The Stuff Tasted Worse Than Usual - pg. 177 - 1985
• I'll Take It - pg. 107 - 1985
• I'm Not A Misogynist - pg. 186 - 1985
• Invasion - pg. 157
• It's Funny, Isn't It #1 - pg. 201
• It's Ours - pg. 312
• January - pg. 55
• Jon Edgar Webb - pg. 227
• Late Late Late Poem - pg. 282
• Let 'Em Go - pg. 270
• Let's Make A Deal - pg. 101
• Longshot - pg. 167 - 1976
• Love Poem To A Stripper - pg. 223 - 1985
• The Magic Machine - pg. 251
• Marching Through Georgia - pg. 239
• Me And My Buddy - pg. 216 - circa 1988
• Miracle - pg. 75 - 1984
• Murder - pg. 299 - 1984
• My Buddy - pg. 225 - 1985
• My First Affair With That Older Woman - pg. 78
• My Friend, The Parking Lot Attendant - pg. 73 - 1984
• My Non-Ambition Ambition - pg. 27
• My Vanishing Act - pg. 99 - 1984
• Nervous People - pg. 302
• No Help For That - pg. 26 - 1985
• No Nonsense - pg. 234
• Not Listed - pg. 183 - 1985
• Oh Yes - pg. 144 - circa 1985
• Our Laughter Is Muted By Their Agony - pg. 298
• Over Done - pg. 296
• P.O. Box 11946, Fresno, Calif. 93776 - pg. 85
• Party's Over - pg. 233 - 1984
• Poor Al - pg. 87
• Practice - pg. 221 - 1985
• Putrefaction - pg. 105 - 1985
• Quiet - pg. 308 - 1985
• Red Mercedes - pg. 14
• Relentless As The Tarantula - pg. 195
• Retired - pg. 17
• Rift - pg. 70 - 1984
• Seize The Day - pg. 247
• Shoes - pg. 125 - 1985
• Some Suggestions - pg. 155
• Someday I'm Going To Write A Primer For Crippled Saints, But Meanwhile - pg. 288
• Song - pg. 218 - circa 1985
• Starting Fast - pg. 118
• Sticks And Stones - pg. 291
• Sunny Side Down - pg. 57
• Supposedly Famous - pg. 109
• Termites Of The Page - pg. 48
• Thank You - pg. 229
• That's Why Funerals Are So Sad - pg. 40
• The Beautiful Lady Editor - pg. 208
• The Blade - pg. 179
• The Boil - pg. 181 - 1985
• The Chemistry Of Things - pg. 66 - 1984
• The Crazy Truth - pg. 120
• The Death Of A Splendid Neighborhood - pg. 274
• The Finest Of The Breed - pg. 131 - circa 1988
• The Freeway Life - pg. 80 - circa 1986
• The Lady In The Castle - pg. 189
• The Last Shot - pg. 112
• The Lost Generation - pg. 24 - circa 1985
• The Magic Curse - pg. 231
• The Man In The Brown Suit - pg. 59
• The Master Plan - pg. 94 - 1984
• The Passing Of A Great One - pg. 147
• The Player - pg. 83
• The Shrinking Island - pg. 249
• The Still Trapeze - pg. 53
• The Stride - pg. 135
• The Wine Of Forever - pg. 149
• Their Night - pg. 197
• This - pg. 280 - 1984
• Those Girls We Followed Home - pg. 253 - 1983
• Together - pg. 128
• Trashcan Lives - pg. 23
• True - pg. 151
• Trying To Make It - pg. 272
• Wearing The Collar - pg. 236 - 1985
• Well, That's Just The Way It Is - pg. 65 - 1984
• What Am I Doing? - pg. 301
• Whorehouse - pg. 113
• Working It Out - pg. 19
• Working Out - pg. 303 - 1984
• Working - pg. 293
• You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense - pg. 277
• Zero - pg. 104 - circa 1986
• It's Funny, Isn't It #2 - pg. 206

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