the virus holds the concepts give way like rotten shoelaces toothache and bacon dance on the lawn

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!

The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

We had a 3:30 pm flight out of Los Angeles that Saturday. At 2 pm I went up and knocked on Tammie’s door. She wasn’t there. I want back to my place and sat down. The phone rang. It was ...

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head