12/22 I remember the day I gave up. I tried to be a good Catholic, I really did. When I was thirteen I had wanted to be a priest even, and not just some run of the mill parish priest, but a Jesuit! I used to say five or even ten Hail Marys and Our…

11/21/90 I am an English major, Welfare pays too little Jesus stole my girlfriend I’m jealous Don’t feed the parrot before you put it On your shoulder 12/1 Somehow Jim had never kissed a girl. His friends thought it was strange, “aren’t you supposed to get through that in the seventh grade?” They were embarrassed,…

11/21/90 17,000 connect dots In one 1991 calendar, I wonder If this is it, is this how it all ends, smothered? like living in post-post apocalypse I can’t read— some illiterate, I don’t need to, I can taste. I don’t need television, I can figure it out for myself, I’ve got toothpaste teeth and eyes,…

11/21/90 Her Haiku about men: All the ones I love that are cold fish, & never hate got cold hands Hugh: Quite a girl we got here, man oh man, look at that Mossberg 500, what a shine, what a shine, Allen: What a shine, An accidental Haiku Handing him lit roach He says, Reagan…

Page 1 (IMG_20260809_095438147_HDR.jpg) 11/19/90 I Allen: Wow! (shows Grace pictures excitedly) Grace: Why don’t you buy it? Allen: I’ve got no money. Grace: So, why don’t you buy it—If you like it so much, why don’t you buy it? Allen: You don’t understand. (puts down book) II Father: Don’t touch that, it’s dirty. (Son puts…

11/19/90 The old man said: “I remember, I am one’ biker girls, dat used to pick up beer bottles and crate for us, no hands, no hands.” He demonstrated “See!” He squatted down till both legs bent at 45° angles at the knees, then slowly straightened, grinning “See!”

11/18/90 Should I kiss you with my eyelids? Just to show you how much I care?

11/14/90 Somedays it’s hot all around the world, The sun burns its little inchworm pixels into my skin. I don’t have a camel To take me across the desert, I don’t have gasoline, my camel drank it all. I don’t have a housewife To clean my house, I don’t even have a saxophone to annoy…

11/13/90 Benny looked up from his hands, crying “I’m just a nice person, I don’t mean any harm,” he said, “We know, Benny, we know.”