During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...

and the subnormal. all through grammar school junior high high school junior college

is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.

John F. Kennedy flower knocks upo… shot through the neck; the gladiolas gather by the dozens… India dripping into Ceylon;

awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten