#Americans #XXCentury #1973 #AtTerrorStreetAndAgonyWay #BurningInWaterDrowningInFlame
good weather is like good women— it doesn’t always happen and when it does
old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back
this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,
They had this thing called Training Class, and so for 30 minutes each night, anyhow, we didn’t have to stick mail. A big Italiano got up on the lecture platform to tell us where it was....
One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…
I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and
Lydia and I were always fighting. She was a flirt and it irritated me. When we ate out I was sure she was eyeballing some man across the room. When my male friends came by to visit and ...
red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…
ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed
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...
it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...
this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,
My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...
she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say