the motion of the human heart: strangled over Missouri; sheathed in hot wax in Boston; burned like a potato in Norfolk; lost in the Allegheny Mountains;

screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.

here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes

my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful

I had been corresponding with Tanya and on the evening of January 5th she phoned. She had a high excited sexy voice like Betty Boop used to have. “I’m flying down tomorrow evening. Will...

I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...

the final curtain on one of the lo… musicals ever, some people claim t… seen it over one hundred times. I saw it on the tv news, that fina… flowers, cheers, tears, a thundero…

The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

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

this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,

there he is: not too many hangovers not too many fights with women not too many flat tires never a thought of suicide