The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

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

Each night as I got ready to go on in, Joyce had my clothing laid out on the bed. Everything was the most expensive money could buy. I never wore the same pair of pants, the same shirt,...

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

I began at 6:18 p.m. and Dave Janko did not begin until 10:36 p.m., so it could have been worse. Having a 10:06 thirty minute lunch, I was usually back by the time he got in. In he’d co...

I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

On Thursday night Bobby phoned again. “Hey, man, what are you doing?” “Oh, come on, man, I’ll just stay for a few beers. . . .” “You treat him mean. He gets lonely when his wife is at w...

I saw her when I was in the left… going east on Sunset. she was sitting with her legs crossed reading a paperback.

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

I cut the middle fingernail of the… finger right hand real short and I began rubbing along her cunt

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...