I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.

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...

in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with

he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about

R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...

old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back

the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain