keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

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...

I walked into the counselor’s office. It was Eddie Beaver sitting behind the desk. The clerks called him “Skinny Beaver.” He had a pointed head, pointed nose, pointed chin. He was all p...

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my

the weather is hot on the back of… which is down at Finkelstein’s who is gifted with 3 balls but no heart, but you’ve got to un… when the bull goes down

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their

I was casing next to G.G. early one morning. That’s what they called him: G.G. His actual name was George Greene. But for years he was simply called G.G. and after a while he looked lik...

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...

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...

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,