I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

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

self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where

I began receiving letters from a girl in New York City. Her name was Mindy. She had run across a couple of my books, but the best thing about her letters was that she seldom mentioned w...

yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with newspapers stuffed into

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.

we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

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

the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you