That evening after dinner Joanna produc… “No.” “Want to try some?” “All right.” Joanna had some paints and brushes and p…

It was noon the next day when the phone… “Well, did she come back with the champa… “Who?” “Your whore.” “Yes, she came back. ...”

I heard it first while screwing a blonde who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote a let… to my mother

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepstakes maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

probably from the belly button or from t… bed, or maybe from the mouth of the shar… the car crash on the avenue that leaves… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong under an

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...

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...

I used to hold my social security card up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,

We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’… “They knew who I was,” she said. “Somet… They had known who she was all right. S… There was a knock on the door. Two peop… He wore sandals and old torn bluejeans;…

live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.

the telephone has not been kind of late, of late there have been more and more ca… from people who want to come over and ta… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely