the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

one of Lorca’s best lines is, “agony, always agony ...” think of this when you

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

Lila Jane was a girl my age who lived next door. I still wasn’t allowed to play with the children in the neighborhood, but sitting in the bedroom often got dull. I would go out and walk...

I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

That night I managed to get 2 or 3 drinks into Cecelia. She forgot herself and crossed her legs high and I saw some good heavy flank. Durable. A cow of a woman, cow’s breasts, cow’s eye...

The subs themselves made Jonstone possible by obeying his impossible orders. I couldn’t see how a man of such obvious cruelty could be allowed to have his position. The regulars didn’t ...

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.

the Egyptians loved the cat were often entombed with it instead of with the women and never with the dog but now

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...