used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.

nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

The guide took us all over the building. There were so many of us that they had to break us up into groups. We used the elevator in shifts. We were shown the employee’s cafeteria, the b...

On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...

they laugh continually even when a board falls down and destroys a face or distorts a

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...

“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

The Stone’s favorite carrier was Matthew Battles. Battles never came in with a wrinkled shirt on. In fact, everything he wore was new, looked new. The shoes, the shirts, the pants, the ...