I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.

the dead dogs of nowhere bark as you approach another traffic accident. cars one standing on its

Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...

sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water

this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,

the ladies of summer will die like… and the lie the ladies of summer will love so long as the price is not forever

So I was surprised when the phone rang a couple of nights later and it was Cassie. “What are you doing, Hank?” She gave me the address, it was either Westwood or West L. A. “I have plen...

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

Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...

I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal