what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light

The voices of the people were the same, no matter where you carried the mail you heard the same things over and over again. “You’re late, aren’t you?” “Where’s the regular carrier?” “He...

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

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

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.

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

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,

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

you sit on the couch with me tonight new woman. have you seen the

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...

awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment