I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with

probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…

3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...

of late I’ve had this thought that this country has gone backwards or 5 de cades

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...