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Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent,
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
she died of alcoholism wrapped in a blanket on a deck chair on an ocean steamer.
he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle
the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head
I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain
red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty
nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…
at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
looking out the window smoking rolled cigarettes drinking Sanka and watching the workers come on in
Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...