Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.