Besides, it pays to be crude, buddy, it PAYS. When these women who have read my poetry knock on my door and I ask them in and pour them a drink, and we talk about Brahms or Corrington or Flash Gordon, they know all along that it is GOING TO HAPPEN, and that makes the talk nice because pretty soon the bastard is just going to walk over and grab me and get started because he’s been around he’s CRUDE And so, since they expect it, I do it, and this gets a lot of barriers and small-talk out of the way fast. Women like bulls, children, apes. The pretty boys and the expounders upon the universe don’t
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