the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

“I’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...