... My early journal: the first thing I found in my old desk. ... My mother's ghost: the first thing I found in the living room. ... I quit shaving but the eyes that glanced at me remained in the mirror. ... The madman emerges from the movies: the street at lunchtime. ... Cities of boys are in their graves, and in this town... ... Lying on my side in the void: the breath in my nose. ... On the fifteenth floor the dog chews a bone- Screech of taxicabs. ... A hardon in New York, a boy in San Fransisco. ... The moon over the roof, worms in the garden. I rent this house. ...