I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...

An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage

The first thing I remember is being under something. It was a table, I saw a table leg, I saw the legs of the people, and a portion of the tablecloth hanging down. It was dark under the...

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

my goldfish stares with watery eye… into the hemisphere of my sorrow; upon the thinnest of threads we hang together, hang hang hang

the girls were young and worked the streets but often couldn’t score, they

I’ve come by, she says, to tell yo… that this is it. I’m not kidding,… over. this is it. I sit on the couch watching her ar… her long red hair before my bedroo…

remember, he told me, that when I… years old my mother was always tak… to the doctor and saying, “he hasn… she was always asking me, “have yo… pooped?”