the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…

the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,

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. ...

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

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...

the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone ringing the w…