he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...

My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

I cross the room to the last wall the last window the last pink sun with its arms around the world

the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”

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

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…

Information has been received in this office indicating that you were arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 12, 1969, on a drunk charge. In this connection, your atten...

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?