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all the way from Mexico straight from the fields to 14 wins 13 by k.o. he was ranked #3
Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...
after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,
I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...
I have lain in bed all day but I have written one poem and I am up now looking out the window and like a novelist might say
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...
don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem
I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels
I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of
We got back to 1010. I had my check. I’d left word that we didn’t want to be disturbed. Tammie and I sat drinking. I’d read 5 or 6 love poems about her. “They knew who I was,” she said....
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works?
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood
she onl y fucks the ones she doesn… to marry. to the others she says you’ve got to marry me. or maybe she just fucks the ones s…
the othe r day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)