Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

keep remembering the horses under the moon keep remembering feeding the horse… sugar white oblongs of sugar

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you

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

Wednesday night found me at the airport waiting for Iris. I sat around and looked at the women. None of them—except for one or two—looked as good as Iris. There was something wrong with...

There were times when Frank and I were friendly with Chuck, Eddie and Gene. But something would always happen (usually I caused it) and then I would be out, and Frank would be partly ou...

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

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

he comes out at 7:30 a.m. every da… with 3 peanut butter sandwiches, a… there’s one can of beer which he floats in the baitbucket. he fishes for hours with a small t…