I found that the only time to study was before sleeping. I was always too tired to make and eat breakfast, so I would go out and buy a tall 6 pack, put it on the chair beside the bed, r...

my daughter is most glorious. we are eating a takeout snack in my car in Santa Monica.

I stayed five days and nights. Then I couldn’t get it up any more. Joanna drove me to the airport. She had bought me a new piece of luggage and some new clothing. I hated that Dallas-Fo...

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

I suppose like any other boy I had one best friend in the neigh… his name was Eugene and he was big… than I was and one year older. Eugene used to whip me pretty good…

You had to fill out more papers to get out than to get in. The first page they gave you was a personalized mimeo affair from the postmaster of the city. It began: “I am sorry you are te...

There was another German Shepherd. It was hot summer and he came BOUNDING out of a back yard and then LEAPED through the air. His teeth snapped, just missing my jugular vein. “OH JESUS!...

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...

after the slaughter house there was a bar around the corner and I sat in there and watched the sun go down through the window,