The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...

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

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...

in the afternoon they lean against one another and you can see how much they like the sun.

in the winter walking on my ceiling my eyes the size of street… I have 4 feet like a mouse but wash my own underwear—bearded and hungover and a hard-on and no lawy…

I had agreed to give a reading up north. It was the afternoon before the reading and I was sitting in an apartment at the Holiday Inn drinking beer with Joe Washington, the promoter, an...

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

After 3 years I made “regular.” That meant holiday pay (subs didn’t get paid for holidays) and a 40 hour week with 2 days off. The Stone was also forced to assign me as relief man to 5 ...

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten