One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...

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used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.

this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,

self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where

in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…

you with long hair, legs crossed h… the bar, you like a butcher knife… as the nightingale sings elsewhere… mingles with the roach’s hiss. know you as

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

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.

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...