I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...

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...

Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...

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,...

I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....

we are gathered here now to bury her in this poem. she did not marry an unemployed wi… beat her every

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

Back at Chelsey High it was the same. One group of seniors had graduated but they were replaced by another group of seniors with sports cars and expensive clothes. I was never confronte...

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do