the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the sheets

the bulls are grand as the side of the s… and although they kill them for the stal… it is the bull that burns the fire, and although there are cowardly bulls as there are cowardly matadors and cowardly…

the final curtain on one of the longest… musicals ever, some people claim to have seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that final curt… flowers, cheers, tears, a thunderous

I was sitting in my shorts one afternoon a week later. There was a tender little knock on the door. “Just a moment,” I said. I put on a robe and opened the door. “We’re two girls from G...

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

I suppose it’s raining in some Spanish… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horses sugar white oblongs of sugar

I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neighborhoo… his name was Eugene and he was bigger than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good.

naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves