I took the envelope home to my mother and handed it to her and walked into the bedroom. My bedroom. The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even ...

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me

John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;

I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...

we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain

There were continual fights. The teachers didn’t seem to know anything about them. And there was always trouble when it rained. Any boy who brought an umbrella to school or wore a rainc...

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...

I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,

looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a