now the territory is taken, the sacrificial lambs have been sl… as history is scratched again on t… as the bankers scurry to survive, as the young girls paint their hun…

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

hooray say the roses, today is bla… and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wed… and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,

he came to the door one night wet… terrorized white cross-eyed tailless cat took him in and fed him and he sta… grew to trust me until a friend dr…

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose