So I took the exam, passed it, took the physical, passed it, and there I was—a substitute mail carrier. It began easy. I was sent to West Avon Station and it was just like Christmas exc...

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

listen, man, don’t tell me about t… sent, we didn’t receive them, we are very careful with manuscrip… we bake them burn them

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

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,

sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water

After Debra left for work the next morning I bathed, then tried to watch t.v. I walked around naked and noticed that I could be seen from the street through the front window. So I had a...

she wrote me a letter from a small room near the Seine. she said she was going to dancing class, she got up, she said at 5 o’clock in the morning

We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...

Later in the hospital they were dabbing at my knees with pieces of cotton that had been soaked in something. It burned. My elbows burned too. The doctor was bending over me with a nurse...

they go on writing pumping out poems— young boys and college professors wives who drink wine all afternoon while their husbands work,