you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—

this man used to be an interesting writer, he was able to say brisk and refreshing things. at the time

call it love stand it up in the failing light put it in a dress pray sing beg cry laugh

are more beautiful than movie stars and they lounge on the lawn sunbathing

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves

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...

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

probably from the belly button or… bed, or maybe from the mouth of th… the car crash on the avenue that l… scattered on the grass. she comes from love gone wrong und…

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,