lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!

It was noon the next day when the phone rang. It was Lydia again. I heard a long insane wail like a wolverine shot in the arctic snow and left to bleed and die alone. . . . I slept most...

Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…

yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

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...