I used to take the back off the telephone and stuff it with ra… and when somebody knocked I wouldn’t answer and if they pers… I’d tell them in terms vulgar

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire

I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.

On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...

we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every

she only fucks the ones she doesn’… to marry. to the others she says you’ve got to marry me. or maybe she just fucks the ones s…

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a