That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

around 2 a.m. in my small room after turning off the poem machine for now

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

I’ve always had trouble with money. this one place I worked everybody ate hot dogs and potato chips

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...

the old folks play a game in the park overlooking the sea shoving markers across cement with wooden sticks. four play, two on each side

she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather