We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

as the spirit wanes the form

first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.

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

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

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

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

That summer, July 1934, they gunned down John Dillinger outside the movie house in Chicago. He never had a chance. The Lady in Red had fingered him. More than a year earlier the banks h...

Cecelia sat and watched us drink. I could see that I repulsed her. I ate meat. I had no god. I liked to fuck. Nature didn’t interest me. I never voted. I liked wars. Outer space bored m...

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness