it was Philly and the bartender sa… what and I said, gimme a draft, J… got to get the nerves straight, I’… going to look for a job. you, he s… a job?

The next day we picked up some of her stuff at this motel. There was a little dark guy in there with a wart on the side of his nose. He looked dangerous. Hector was sitting on the edge ...

I didn’t see Lydia for a couple of days, although I did manage to phone her 6 or 7 times during that period. Then the weekend arrived. Her ex-husband, Gerald, always took the children o...

red summers and black satin charcoal and blood ringing the sheets while snails are stepped on and moths go batty

I wait on life like a pregnancy, p… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth throu… brain

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

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

there was a frozen tree that I wan… but the shells came down and in Vegas looking across at a g… at 3:30 in the morning, I died without nails, without a co…

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

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

what you see is what you see: madhouses are rarely on display. that we still walk about and scratch ourselves and light