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A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...
Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...
I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother
I never wear dark shades but this red head went to get a prescription filled on Hollywood… and she kept haggling and working… me, snapping and snarling.
the lilies storm my brain by god by god like nazi storm troopers! do you think I’m going tizzy?
the feelings I get driving past the railroad yard never on purpose but on my way to… are the feelings other men have fo… see the tracks and all the boxcars
My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...
women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.
at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a
I am driving down Wilton Avenue when this girl of about 15 dressed in tight blue jeans that grip her behind like two hand… steps out in front of my car
Katherine stayed 4 or 5 more days. We had reached the time of the month when it was risky for Katherine to fuck. I couldn’t stand rubbers. Katherine got some contraceptive foam. Meanwhi...
the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside
rose red sunlight; take it apart in the garage like a puzzle:
the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle
New Year’s Eve was another bad night for me to get through. My parents had always delighted in New Year’s Eve, listening to it approach on the radio, city by city, until it arrived in L...