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starving there, sitting around the… and at night walking the streets f… hours, the moonlight always seemed fake to me, maybe it was,
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
in the hospitals I’ve been in you see the crosses on the walls with the thin palm leaves behind t… yellowed and browned it is the signal to accept the ine…
it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
We ran up the long ramp. I was ca… At the escalator Tammie saw the f… “Please,” I said, “we only have f… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”
On Thanksgiving Iris prepared the turkey and put it in the oven. Bobby and Valerie came over for a few drinks but they didn’t stay. It was refreshing. Iris had on another dress, just as...
was a truly amazing man he pretended to be rich even though we lived on beans and… when we sat down to eat, he said,
feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine
all right, while we are gently cel… and while crazy classical music le… my small radio, I light a fresh ci… and realize that I am still very m… the 21st century is almost upon me…
my friend is worried about dying he lives in Frisco I live in L.A. he goes to the gym and works with the iron and hits
the acute and terrible air hangs w… as summer birds mingle in the bran… and warble and mystify the clamor of the mind… an old parrot
I forget the beginning time. 6 or 7 p.m. Something like that. All you did was sit with a handful of letters, take a streetmap and figure your run. It was easy. All the drivers took much...
almost dawn blackbirds on the telephone wire waiting as I eat yesterday’s forgotten sandwich
Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...