sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

Christmas eve, alone, in a motel room down the coast near the Pacific— hear it?

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

I watched the board and the 6 drop… after a first flash of 18 from a m… of 12...two minutes to post and a… kept jamming against my back, but… I bet 20 to win and walked out to…

naked in that bright light the four horse falls and throws a 112-pound boy into the hooves

am sitting on a tin chair outside… death, on stinking wings, wafts th… halls forevermore. remember the hospital stenches fro… was a boy and when I was a man and…

Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...

stepped into the wrong end of the… right leg which was bad to begin w… with a tv writer and an actor, som… life to make a sitcom and luckily… day at the track I get a box seat…

it is like this when you slip down, done like a wound-up victrola (you remember those?) and you go downtown

Her father really hated me. He thought I was after his money. I didn’t want his god damned money. And I didn’t even want his god damned precious daughter. The only time I ever saw him w...

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car