I pick up the skirt,I pick up the sparkling beads in black,this thing that moved oncearound flesh,and I call God a liar,I say anything that movedlike thator knewmy namecould never…

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 it’s her again,every time she…

the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much…

I cut the middle fingernail of the middlefingerright handreal shortand I began rubbing along her cuntas she sat upright in bedspreading lotion over her armsfaceand breastsafter bathing.then she lit a…

this time has finished me. I feel like the German troopswhipped by snow and the communistswalking bentwith newspapers stuffed intoworn boots. my plight is just as terrible.maybe more so. victory…

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 things we aretaught, all…

there is always somebody or somethingwaiting for you,something stronger, more intelligent,more evil, more kind, more durable,something bigger, something better,something worse, something witheyes like the tiger, jaws like the shark,something crazier…

the women of the past keepphoning.there was another yesterdayarrived from out ofstate.she wanted to seeme.I told her“no.” I don’t want to seethem,I won’t see them.it would beawkwardgruesome anduseless. I know…

ignore all possible concepts and possibilities —ignore Beethoven, the spider, the damnation of Faust —just make it, babe, make it:a house  a car   a belly full of beanspay your taxesfuckand if…

“–you know, I’ve either had a family, a job, somethinghas always been in thewaybut nowI’ve sold my house, I’ve found thisplace, a large studio, you should see the space andthe…