Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...

Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...

Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...

A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you

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

cigarettes wetted with beer from the night before you light one gag open the door for air

drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.

The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...