By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday. There were two pillows on my chair. I ...

The next day was Saturday and Debra cooked us breakfast. “Are you coming antique hunting with us today?” We ate in silence for a while, then she said, “I liked your reading at The Lance...

It was 12 hours a night, plus supervisors, plus clerks, plus the fact that you could hardly breathe in that pack of flesh, plus stale baked food in the “non-profit” cafeteria. Plus the ...

he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

monkey feet small and blue walking toward you as the back of a building falls of… and an airplane chews the white sk…

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

schoolgirls in pantyhose sitting on bus stop benches looking tired at 13 with their raspberry lipstick. it’s hot in the sun

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten

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’ve made it,” she said, “I’ve c… through.” she had on new boots, pa… and a white sweater. “I know what… want now.” she was from Chicago an… had settled in L.A.’s Fairfax dis…

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed

dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon

he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking