shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

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...

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or

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...

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...

I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.

I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.

Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...