After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…

we talk about this film: Cagney fed this broad grapefruit faster than she could eat it and

I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...

There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...

to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

After English class one day Mrs. Curtis asked me to stay. She had great legs and a lisp and there was something about the legs and the lisp together that heated me up. She was about 32,...

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall

the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...