after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,

watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

all right, while we are gently cel… and while crazy classical music le… my small radio, I light a fresh ci… and realize that I am still very m… the 21st century is almost upon me…

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

the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed

listening to Bruckner on the radio wondering why I’m not half mad over the latest breakup with my latest girlfriend wondering why I’m not driving the…

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you… that?

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...