you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

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

in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.

murder the roaches spit out paper clips and the helicopter circles and cir… smelling for blood

Within a day or two, about 1 pm in the afternoon there was a knock at my door. It was a painter, Monty Riff, or so he informed me. He also told me that I used to get drunk with him when...

Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

the blazing shark wants my balls as I walk through the meat section looking for salami and cheese purple housewives

horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb

the 3 horse clipped the heels of the 7, they both went down and the 9 stumbled over them, jocks rolling, horses’ legs flung skyward.

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...

I read a book about John Dos Pas… the book once radical—communist John ended up in the Hollywood Hi… and reading the Wall Street Journal

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