I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

you no faces no faces at all laughing at nothing—

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

like in a chair the color of the s… as you listen to lazy piano music and the aircraft overhead are not at war. where the last drink is as good as

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

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

take a writer away from his typewr… and all you have left is the sickness which started him

in grievous deity my cat walks around he walks around and around with electric tail and

have we gone wrong again? we laugh less and less, become more sadly sane. all we want is the absence of others.

boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...