don’t worry about rejections, pard, I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem

sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 junkies… female. brown paper bags filled with trash are everywhere. is one-thirty in the afternoon.

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind the eye

stew at noon, my dear; and look: the ants, the sawdust, the mica plants, the shadows of banks like bad jokes; do you think we’ll hear

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

Then I started coming home unhappy. “What’s the matter, Hank?” I had to get drunk every night. “It’s the manager, Freddy. He has start… “What’s the name of the song?”

they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to

Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...