Sara was preparing the turkey dressing and I sat in the kitchen talking to her. We were both sipping white wine. The phone rang. I went and got it. It was Debra. “I just wanted to wish ...

I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.

it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

a poem is a city filled with stree… filled with saints, heroes, beggar… filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and p… drought, a poem is a city at war,

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,

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

I don’t know how many bottles of b… I have consumed while waiting for… to get better. I don’t know how much wine and whi… and beer

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