That Tuesday night we were sitting at my place drinking; Tammie, me and her brother, Jay. The phone rang. It was Bobby. “Louie and his wife are down here and she’d like to meet you.” Lo...

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”

It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...

Meanwhile, things went on. I had a long run of luck at the racetrack. I began to feel confident out there. You went for a certain profit each day, somewhere between 15 and 40 bucks. You...

Joyce found a job with the county, the county Police Department, of all things. I was living with a cop! But at least it was during the day, which gave me a little rest from those fondl...

the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn

Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...

they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age

I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,

One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...