keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

kool enough to die but not kill I take my doctor’s green pill drink tea as the sharks swim through vases o…

I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

I’ve come by, she says, to tell yo… that this is it. I’m not kidding,… over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her ar… her long red hair before my bedroo…

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty

Tony phoned and told me that Jan had left him but that he was a… helped him he said to think about… like D. H. Lawrence pissed off with life in general bu…

Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...

all of a sudden I’m a painter. a girl from Galveston gives me $50 for a painting of a man holding a candycane while floating in a darkened sky.

and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps

Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

the elephants are caked with mud a… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care