I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

We drank all day and that night I tried again to make love to Mindy. I was astounded and dismayed to find she had a large pussy. An extra large pussy. I hadn’t noticed it the night befo...

On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...

I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...

Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.

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...

a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,

my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.