she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .

you have to have it or the walls w… in. you have to give everything up, th… away, everything away. you have to look at what you look…

Back in L.A., there was almost a week of peace. Then the phone rang. It was the owner of a Manhattan Beach nightclub, Marty Seavers. I had read there a couple of times before. The club ...

He hinted at times that I was a bastard and I told him to listen to Brahms, and I told him to learn to paint and drink and not be dominated by women and dollars but he screamed at me, F...

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankl… and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists my god,

listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was standing in the yard during gym class when he walked up to me. “I’m putting you on garbage detail until further notice.” The kids had to work off their...

I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift

I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of