One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...

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...

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

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...

we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every

I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

Jr. high went by quickly enough. About the 8th grade, going into the 9th, I broke out with acne. Many of the guys had it but not like mine. Mine was really terrible. I was the worst cas...

neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before

There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and

That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago