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

I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said “yes”, “yes?” I asked. "she`s young and pretty",

I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...

The toughest in the station. Apartment houses with boxes that had scrubbed-out names or no names at all, under tiny lightbulbs in dark halls. Old ladies standing in halls, up and down t...

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...

I know a woman who keeps buying puzzles Chinese puzzles blocks

bet on #6, I try red, I stare at… wonder what Chekhov would do, and… blue plates sit eating the carnage… and look very much like Russians a… my left tit and try to smile like…

the house next door makes me sad. both man and wife rise early and go to work. they arrive home in early evening.

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

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

screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.

this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man

“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...