That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

Again I was on a new route. The Stone always put me on hard routes, but now and then, due to the circumstances of things, he was forced to place me on one less murderous. Route 511 was ...

the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.

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

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

I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...

yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

Our English teacher, Miss Gredis, was the absolute best. She was a blonde with a long sharp nose. Her nose wasn’t much good but you didn’t notice it when you looked at the rest of her. ...

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...

we buy the scandal sheets at the s… get into bed and eat pretzels and… the church bells ring and the dogs… we turn on the tv and watch very b… then she goes down and brings up i…