I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten

Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...

It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little

blue fish, the blue night, a blue… everything is blue. and my cats are blue: blue fur, bl… blue whiskers, blue eyes. my bed lamp shines

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed

people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned h...

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...