after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,

There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...

with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little

have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines

I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…

A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college

Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...