I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,

if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.

That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...

they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

I got lucky the next day. They called my name. It was a different doctor. I stripped down. He turned a hot white light on me and looked me over. I was sitting on the edge of the examina...

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as

Upon awakening I got up and used Joanna’s toothbrush, drank a couple of glasses of water, washed my hands and face and got back into bed. Joanna turned around and my mouth found hers. M...

Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...