This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all I have to do is let it go, let its energy carry the story. And that may not turn out to be the beginning of the book.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.