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not much chance,completely cut loose frompurpose,he was a young manriding a busthrough North Carolinaon the wat to somewhereand it began to snowand..

she's young, she said,but look at me,I have pretty ankles,and look at my wrists, I have prettywristso my god,I thought it was all working,and now..

call it the greenhouse effect or whateverbut it just doesn't rain like it used to.I particularly remember the rains of thedepression era.there wasn't..

It's never quite right, he said, the way people look,the way the music sounds, the way the words arewritten.It's never quite right, he said, all the..

during my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't call ithappiness-it was more..

you haven't liveduntil you've been in aflophousewith nothing but onelight bulband 56 mensqueezed togetheron cotswith everybodysnoringat onceand some..

naked along the side of the house,8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oilover my body, Jesus, have I cometo this?I once battled in dark alleys for..

he lives in a house with a swimming pooland says the job iskilling him.he is 27. I am 44. I can’t seem toget rid ofhim. his novels keep comingback...

he drank wine all night of the28th, and he kept thinking of her:the way she walked and talked and lovedthe way she told him things that seemed..

I pick up the skirt,I pick up the sparkling beadsin black,this thing that moved oncearound flesh,and I call God a liar,I say anything that movedlike..

there are worse things thanbeing alonebut it often takes decadesto realize thisand most oftenwhen you doit's too lateand there's nothing worsethantoo..

I met a genius on the traintodayabout 6 years old,he sat beside meand as the trainran down along the coastwe came to the oceanand then he looked at..

each man must realizethat it can all disappear veryquickly:the cat, the woman, the job,the front tire,the bed, the walls, theroom; all our..

with an Apple Macintoshyou can't run Radio Shack programsin its disc drive.nor can a Commodore 64drive read a fileyou have created on anIBM Personal..

from my bedI watch3 birdson a telephonewire.one fliesoff.thenanother.one is left,thenit toois gone.my typewriter istombstonestill.and I amreduced to..

I can remember starving in asmall room in a strange cityshades pulled down, listening toclassical musicI was young I was so young it hurt like a..

225 days under grassand you know more than I.they have long taken your blood,you are a dry stick in a basket.is this how it works?in this roomthe..

when God created love he didn't help mostwhen God created dogs He didn't help dogswhen God created plants that was averagewhen God created hate we..

I've come by, she says, to tell youthat this is it. I'm not kidding, it'sover. this is it.I sit on the couch watching her arrangeher long red hair..

the final curtain on one of the longest runningmusicals ever, some people claim to haveseen it over one hundred times.I saw it on the tv news, that..

death wants more death, and its webs are full:I remember my father's garage, how child-likeI would brush the corpses of fliesfrom the windows they..

We are like roses that have never bothered tobloom when we should have bloomed andit is as ifthe sun has become disgusted withwaiting

some dogs who sleep At nightmust dream of bonesand I remember your bonesin fleshand bestin that dark green dressand those high-heeled brightblack..

Sunday, I am eating agrapefruit, church is over at the RussianOrthadox to thewest.she is darkof Eastern descent,large brown eyes look up from the..

good weatheris likegood women-it doesn't always happenand when it doesit doesn'talways last.man ismore stable:if he's badthere's more chancehe'll..