he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, untouched… externals. little shiver of horror runs through me… about

very tall girl lifts her nose at me outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

The baby was crawling, discovering the world. Marina slept in bed with us at night. There was Marina, Fay, the cat and myself. The cat slept on the bed too. Look here, I thought, I have...

I go to pick her up. she’s on some errand. she always has errands many things to do. I have nothing to do.

It was noon the next day when the phone… “Well, did she come back with the champa… “Who?” “Your whore.” “Yes, she came back. ...”

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over all th… but you flew high to bomb the people, you never saw it,

Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

if you can’t stand the heat, he says, ge… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’m in t… oven.

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...