man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.

I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...

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

It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat

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

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

I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake

luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that

this kid used to teach at Kansas… then they moved him out he went to a bean factory then he and his wife moved to the… she got a job and worked while

then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.

all the women all their kisses the different ways they love and talk and need. their ears they all have