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

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

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you

I forget the beginning time. 6 or 7 p.m. Something like that. All you did was sit with a handful of letters, take a streetmap and figure your run. It was easy. All the drivers took much...

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

schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!

we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;

—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business

Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...

We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....

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...

he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi