had lost the last race big somebody had stolen my coat could feel the flu coming on and my tires were low. I went in to get a

But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...

“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...

near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their

like the fox run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

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…

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...

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

we’d had any number of joints and… beer and I was on the bed stretche… and she said, “look, I’ve had 3 ab… in a row, real fast, and I’m sick… abortions, I don’t want you to sti…

I began at 6:18 p.m. and Dave Janko did not begin until 10:36 p.m., so it could have been worse. Having a 10:06 thirty minute lunch, I was usually back by the time he got in. In he’d co...

she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .

for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there

here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about