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R.O.T.C. kept me away from sports while the other guys practiced every day. They made the school teams, won their letters and got the girls. My days were spent mostly marching around in...
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,...
64 days and nights in that place, chemotherapy, antibiotics, blood running into the catheter. leukemia.
When Jonstone saw me the next 5 a.m. he spun in his swivel and his face and his shirt were the same color. But he said nothing. I didn’t care. I had been up to 2 a.m. drinking and screw...
One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...
and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps
maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.
I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money
if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way.
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…
with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little
shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down
I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks
That night I took Tammie to the harness races. We went upstairs to the second deck and sat down. I brought her a program and she stared at it a while. (At the harness races, past perfor...