My father always ran the neighborhood kids away from our house. I was told not to play with them but I walked down the street and watched them anyhow. “Hey, Heinie!” they yelled, “Why d...

Lydia liked parties. And Harry was a party-giver. So we were on our way to Harry Ascot’s. Harry was the editor of Retort, a little magazine. His wife wore long see-through dresses, show...

nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut away… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not as good

the girls are coming home in their cars and I sit by the window and watch. there’s a girl in a red dress driving a white car

I’d tell them to have an unhappy love affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of their

big black beard tells me that I don’t feel terror I look at him

saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.

between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and any tim… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset. it’s strange to be old and not feel old

I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...

I went to this place to see a movie on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

I walked off the job again and the police stopped me for running a red light at Serrano Ave. my mind was rather gone and I stood in a patch of leaves

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...