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

Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

We continued drinking. Cecelia had just one more and stopped. “I want to go out and look at the moon and stars,” she said. “It’s so beautiful out!” She went outside by the swimming pool...

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...

“your poems about the girls will s… 50 years from now when the girls a… my editor phones me. dear editor: the girls appear to be gone

she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,

I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...

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

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a