man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

the boys come up the boys climb up the brown pole as the waterheater gurgles in Spanish

boy, don’t come around here tellin… can’t cut it, that they’re pitching you low and insid… they are conspiring against you, that all you want is a chance but…

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon

Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...

in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.

drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the

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 ...

That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown