for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...

screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.

After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...

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.

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

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

no one is sorry I am leaving, not even I; but there should be a minstrel or at least a glass of wine. bothers the young most, I think:

I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

That evening the phone rang. It was Mercedes. I had met her after giving a poetry reading at Venice Beach. She was about 28, fair body, pretty good legs, a blonde about 5~feet-5, a blue...

I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...