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

hooray say the roses, today is blamesday and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wednesday and we bloom wher soldiers fell and lovers too,

around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a dime!” and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his rotten b… with roller skates underneath.

I was in the 4th grade when I found out… the last to know, because I still didn’t… me while I was standing around at recess… “Don’t you know how it happens?” he aske… “What?”

schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun

here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in drag here comes nothing to do all day long here comes another night of no sleep here comes the phone ringing the wrong v…

I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of

they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hood and… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly

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…

Bobby and Valerie came by and I introdu… “Valerie and I are going to take a vaca… “No, Bobby, I don’t think so.” “Oh, Hank, please!” said Cecelia. “I j… “Fine,” said Bobby. "We leave this even…