I had boils the size of tomatoes all over me they stuck a drill into me down at the county hospital, and

our marriage book, it says. I look through it. they lasted ten years. they were young once.

I got back, made love to Lydia several times, got in a fight with her, and left L. A. International late one morning to give a reading in Arkansas. I was lucky enough to have a seat by ...

I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,

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

he talks like he writes and he has a face like a dove, unt… externals. little shiver of horror runs throu… about

We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...

I sat in the airport and waited. You never knew about photos. You could never tell. I was nervous. I felt like vomiting. I lit a cigarette and gagged. Why did I do these things? I didn’...

I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait

Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...

The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...