first time my father overheard me listen… this bit of music he asked me, “what is it?” “it’s called Love For Three Oranges,” I informed him.

While working Dorsey station I heard some of the old timers needling Big Daddy Greystone about how he’d had to buy a tape recorder in order to learn his schemes. Big Daddy had read the ...

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!...

One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...

the canaries were there, and the lemon t… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti

I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...

I awaken about noon and go out to get th… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

The next day we picked up some of her st… “You going with him?” he asked Mary Lou… “Yes.” “All right. Luck.” He lit a cigarette. “Thanks, Hector.”

he met her at the racetrack, a strawberr… blonde with round hips, well-bosomed, lo… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a pink… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions about var…

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,