11/5/90 Two trains collide They said that four passenger died, miraculous, I don’t care, I put down the paper. “Hello class” (they do not listen) “Mr. Shecky could not be here today. Just give me a hot cuppa coffee in my Christmas mug

11/5/90 Sometimes she’d scream in the middle of the blue-brown afternoon “Dazz, Dazz, Dazz, Dazz,” Then she’d type some-more,

11/5/90 There’s nothing To do here Sh_t gets stuck To my shoes This soil not mixed with The ash of My ancestors It was time To begin, you can’t package That, give it Back, f_ck Off, sorry. An Ode to Bruce Lee and other stories I coughed twice — then remember. When Arnold was a…

11/5/90 George had a vision making peace making — Jane screwing Breaking arrows Snapping hatchet Moderating old irons with two little Chinese girls at the same time watching the videotape play into nothing — Oh shit I’ve got a paper due!

11/8/90 They cut the sheet Of short-bread into square little cookies Each the same as The one right next To it — symmetry — ah perfection.

10/4/90 The policeman held up five fingers in front of my face. “Count these,” he said. I stared for a moment at his pale mottled middle-aged digits, then said, “One—two— three—four—five,” Then I ran back into the jungle, cut myself on overhanging branches, but I didn’t care, I had to get away. He was no…

10/3/90 Sometimes I get frustrated— There’s a woman being raped, down the hall she screams like a bird caught in invisible barbed wire, helpless. But somehow I don’t move to help, I remain frozen, too much work to move, the sofa is too warm, too comfortable to get up, I raise the volume on the…

10/1/90 I’m sex, the girl screamed like a dog, barking and growling, faucets from the bottom O father / son / & spirit call the daughters down, wet thigh from the thrust, The Bed bangs carelessly against the thin metal wall, When my neighbor Old Mr. Blockon one room over, he says to his wife…