here comes the fishhead singing here comes the baked potato in dra… here comes nothing to do all day l… here comes another night of no sle… here comes the phone wringing the…

my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…

Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...

neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

Graduation Day. We filed in with our caps and gowns to “Pomp and Circumstance.” I suppose that in our three years we must have learned something. Our ability to spell had probably impro...

it is not very good to not get through whether it’s the wall the human mind

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

we fought for 17 days inside that… thrusting and counter-thrusting but finally she got away and I walked outside and spit

when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,

The 5th grade was a little better. The other students seemed less hostile and I was growing larger physically. I still wasn’t chosen for the homeroom teams but I was threatened less. Da...

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen