I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...

I had been corresponding with a lady in San Francisco for several months. Her name was Liza Weston and she survived by giving dance lessons, including ballet, in her own studio. She was...

Slipping keenly into bright ashes, target of vanilla tears your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker

I had Fridays and Saturdays off, which made Sunday the roughest day. Plus the fact that on Sunday they made me report at 3:30 p.m. instead of my usual 6:18 p.m. This Sunday I went in an...

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

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...

the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you

It was Christmas season and I learned from the drunk up the hill, who did the trick every Christmas, that they would hire damned near anybody, and so I went and the next thing I knew I ...

they stop out front here looks as if the car is on fire the smoke blazes blue from the hoo… the motor sounds like cannon shots the car humps wildly

vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him

One day I was at the bar between races and I saw this woman. God or somebody keeps creating women and tossing them out on the streets, and this one’s ass is too big and that one’s tits ...

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,