you’ve got to fuck a great many wo… beautiful women and write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about age and/or freshly-arrived talents.

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...

I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and… along the way. I was reading a wee… Kandel and I did not look quite a… pretty but

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

I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

the girls are coming home in their… and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...

“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...

he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…