the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

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...

luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that

The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...

The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...

very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire

It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom