boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

it is justified all dying is justified all killing all death all passing, nothing is in vain

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

So gramps wrote Joyce a big check and there we were. We rented a little house up on a hill, and then Joyce got this stupid moralistic thing. “We both ought to get jobs,” Joyce said, “to...

the mockingbird had been following… all summer mocking mocking mocking teasing and cocksure; the cat crawled under rockers on p…

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…

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...

it beats love because there aren’t… wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or… or Stravinsky or Mozart. she boil… eggs counting the seconds out loud…

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

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!