The ultra-violet ray machine clicked off. I had been treated on both sides. I took off the goggles and began to dress. Miss Ackerman walked in. “Not yet,” she said, “keep your clothes o...

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

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

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

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

The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...

was much easier to be a genius in… only 3 or 4 literary magazines and… or 5 times you could end up in Ger… you could possibly meet Picasso fo… maybe only Miró.

we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every

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

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

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...