horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

live alone in a small room and read the newspapers and sleep alone in the dark dreaming of crowds.

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and circles smelling for blood

Beowulf may have killed Grendel and Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

believe in earning one’s own way but I also believe in the unexpected gift and it is a wondrous thing when a woman who has read your works

On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...

This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...

I paid this one’s fare all the way from… to San Francisco then flew up to meet her at her brother’… and I got drunk and talked all night about a redhead, an…

we’d had any number of joints and some beer and I was on the bed stretched out and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 abortion… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick of abortions, I don’t want you to stick tha…

I wait on life like a pregnancy, put the… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth through are… brain