I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

as the orchid dies and the grass goes insane, let’s have one for the los… met an old man and a tired whore

One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…

half-past nowhere alone in the crumbling tower of myself stumbling in this the

he carried a piece of carbon, a blade and a whip and at night he feared his head and covered it with blankets

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

we have everything and we have not… and some men do it in churches and some men do it by tearing butt… in half and some men do it in Palm Spring…

you know I sat on the same barstool in Phi… 5 years I drank canned heat and the cheape… I was beaten in alleys by well-fed…

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,