I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...

the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as

we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...

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...