first time my father overheard me… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oran… I informed him.

I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels

I was hungover again, another heat spell was on—a week of 100 degree days. The drinking went on each night, and in the early mornings and days there was The Stone and the impossibility ...

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

I cut the middle fingernail of the… finger right hand real short and I began rubbing along her cunt

I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

the cops want me to come down and… some guy who tried to rape me. I’ve lost the key to my car again;… the key to open the door but not t… to start it.

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore