think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

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

“You ought to try to be like Abe Mortenson,” said my mother, “he gets straight A’s. Why can’t you ever get any A’s?” “Henry is dead on his ass,” said my father. “Sometimes I can’t belie...

then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.

having the low down blues and goin… into a restraunt to eat. you sit at a table. the waitress smiles at you. she’s dumpy. her ass is too big.

this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

I suppose it’s raining in some Sp… while I’m feeling bad like this; I’d like to think so now.

I would, of course, prefer to be w… instead of with a photograph of an… to the sound of the anvil chorus a… girls kicking high, showing everyt… but I might as well be dead right…

There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…

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...

Beowulf may have killed Grendel a… Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb