they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

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

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

I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...

So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...

had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head

had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a

New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…

Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and