I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...

these things that we support most… have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,

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

in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…

At Mt. Justin, biology class was neat. We had Mr. Stanhope for our teacher. He was an old guy about 55 and we pretty much dominated him. Lilly Fischman was in the class and she was real...

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...

I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...

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