My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind blows a… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the cats… bed...

in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.

The jew bent over and died. 99 machine guns were shipped to France. somebody won the… while I inspected the propeller of an old monoplane

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

My father had two brothers. The younger… “Neither of them amount to anything,” sa… “You just come from a bad family, Daddy… “And your brother doesn’t amount to a da… My mother’s brother was in Germany. My…

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

I used to know a dutchman in a Philly b… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,

if you can’t stand the heat, he says, ge… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’m in t… oven.

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,

in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiches and potato chips.

I took Tanya to the airport the next af… “I’ll write you,” said Tanya. “All right.” “Do you think I’m a chippy?” “No. You love sex and there’s nothing w…