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...

the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…

my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...

Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,

The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

murdered in the alleys of the land frost-bitten against flagpoles pawned by females educated in the dark for the dark vomiting into plugged toilets

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

We had another fight. Later I was back at my place but I didn’t feel like sitting there alone and drinking. The night harness racing meet was on. I took a pint and went out to the track...

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?