These pieces seem to concern themselves with America. There are many versions of many of them. We have tried to include here which ever seems most recent. Stapled into the binder where most of these were kept printed was a letter which can be read here.

53rd Street
A God's own story
About Dermot Reilly
Adven Turing
Almost Mayday
Amerigo Round
Amputation gravy
An ant’s brain is no larger than its head
An explanation of the break-up of my first marriage
Angels hereby wait
Ann Again's wake
Apartheid, New Jersey
April 9th -for Pete Rose
Architecture kills
Arkansas State Prayer
August 5, 2005
August 25, 2005
Auto-infection (114th Street)
Babbie
Bad cat
Badlands
Baedeker
Bat & Child
Bathing Jerry Brown
Beautiful blind child
Becoming Brett Easton Ellis
Becoming Mother
Black man at Radio City
Blasted by autumn winds
Booze, cigarettes and vagina
Boyware
Broken train
Bus ride
Butcher
Call it sleep
Canoeing from Hope to Patience
Cauterization of the brain wound
César Romero
Charlton Heston is my President
Cheap
Cherrystones
Chinks don't fuck
Commute
Complicating Raymond Carver
Confusing parable about fish
Consequences of a memory of liver
Corrections
Crime scene
Crossing off the states
Darwin in San Diego
Deaf and dumb
Deaf dogs still know how to whine
December 29, 2004
Dentistry
Dick Butkus regrets
Doggerel / Chinatown murder
Dogs in Seattle
Done away with
Doppler effect (to the store)
Dream log: August 24, 2004
Dream log: July 4, 2005
Dying for America
Elisabeth Shue
English as a foreign language
Enough to disqualify you from office
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom
Eulogy for Mark Rothko
Evangelism Lite
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
Explanation
Fairytale of New York
Fast supper
Float
For children as yet unable to talk
For Mark Melnick
Fugitive
Garbage closet
George Plimpton
Gig Young
God's own pool attendant
Goering on art
Golden gate
Grand Central
Grumble
Habeus Corpus
Harold Brodkey
Harry's bar
Heart of darkness (glass key)
Henry's big idea
Henry Fonda alone
Holier than thou
Hook on one
How the heart really works
I see falling
Ignoreland
Imagine a leaf
In a Manson pepper-shaker
In the parking lot outside of Hopkins Airport (Cleveland)
INFP
Instead of the single bullet theory
Irascible
Jack Lemon
January 20, 1994
Jesus in jail
Jimmy in the beginning
Journalism that counts
Killing time
Konzee
La Guardia at play
March 3, 2007
March 20, 2007 - Dog one
March 21, 2007 - Dog two
Marguerite got married
Marlon in the living
May 28, 2003
Metaphor for the lives we're living
Miami Beach
Midnight with a handgun
Midwest
Miles breathes
Mohawk Nation Radio
Mollie
Months of the moon
Movie for Drew Barrymore
Mute wins right to enter speech contest
My-Lai is not a drink
Nancy Reagan asleep
N'awlins
Needs must
Nelson Algren after the war
New year's day
New York central time
New York minute
New York times
Nightmare for Cindy Crawford
Nine and a half
No cigar
No day at the beach
North American Free Trade Agreement
North Union Street
Nostalgia makes ghosts
Obama Joe Biden
Obituary for Ronald Wilson Reagan
October 19
Only Connecticut
Oppenheimer at last
Osmoroid, Pen God of Memory (for boys)
Papa in exile
Pentimento
Philip Morris in therapy
Potato wife
Prayer for the deaf
Queer (what we're doing here)
Romance novel
Romeoville
Rules that don't apply to you
Separate not equal
September 3 - At the Well Station
Seymour Phillips
Shit. Piss. Fuck.
Small pieces of divorce
Ten little niggers
The Same Liver Twice
The value of water
True Story
Underwear
Walt Whitman on the Nature Channel
Weather or not
What Gus Grissom saw last
Whorehouse cucumber
Xylophones are being slaughtered in the wild
Zelda's kitchen
Zydeco Nation