the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

absolutely sesamoid said the skeleton shoving his chalky foot upon my desk, and that was it,

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...

it sits outside my window now like and old woman going to market… it sits and watches me, it sweats nevously through wire and fog and dog—bark

The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...

But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....

strange warmth, hot and cold femal… I make good love, but love isn’t j… sex. most females I’ve known are ambitious, and I like to lie aroun… on large comfortable pillows at 3…

I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen

I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.