One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…

in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

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...

The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker

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

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

the boy walks with his muddy feet… soul talking about recitals, virtuosi,… the lesser known novels of Dostoev… talking about how he corrected a w…

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.