The drilling and squeezing continued for weeks but there was little result. When one boil vanished another would appear. I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a...

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

I’ve come by, she says, to tell yo… that this is it. I’m not kidding,… over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her ar… her long red hair before my bedroo…

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

I get too many phone calls. they seek the creature out. they shouldn’t.

Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car