Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...

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...

the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…

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

I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

There was a gang of us down there. 150 or 200. There were tedious papers to fill out. Then we all stood up and faced the flag. The guy who swore us in was the same guy who had sworn me ...

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down