I have been looking at the same lampshade for 5 years and it has gathered

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

majestic, magic infinite my little girl is sun on the carpet—

now the territory is taken, the sacrificial lambs have been sl… as history is scratched again on t… as the bankers scurry to survive, as the young girls paint their hun…

I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.

It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...

are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen

up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness

I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...