a girlfriend came inbuilt me a bedscrubbed and waxed the kitchen floorscrubbed the wallsvacuumedcleaned the toiletthe bathtubscrubbed the bathroom floorand cut my toenails and my hair.thenall on the same daythe…
small cheap rooms where you walkdown the hall to thebathroom can seem romantic toa young writer.even the rejection slips areamusing because you are sure thatyou areone of the best. but…
I even hear the mountainsthe way they laughup and down their blue sidesand down in the waterthe fish cryand the water is their tears.I listen to the wateron nights I…
the words have come and gone,I sit ill.the phone rings, the cats sleep.Linda vacuums.I am waiting to live,waiting to die. I wish I could ring in some bravery.it’s a lousy…
I reached up into the top of the closetand took out a pair of blue pantiesand showed them to her andasked “are these yours?” and she looked and said,“no, those…
when you’re younga pair of femalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones;when you’re oldit’s justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themand just as well.
it sits outside my window nowlike and old woman going to market;it sits and watches me,it sweats nevouslythrough wire and fog and dog-barkuntil suddenlyI slam the screen with a newspaperlike…
in grievous deity my catwalks aroundhe walks around and aroundwithelectric tail andpush-buttoneyes he isalive andplush andfinal as a plum tree neither of us understandscathedrals orthe man outsidewatering hislawn if I…
if I suffer at thistypewriterthink how I’d feelamong the lettuce-pickers of Salinas? I think of the menI’ve known infactorieswith no way toget out-choking while livingchoking while laughingat Bob Hope or…