my mother knocked on my rooming-ho… and came in looked in the dresser drawer: Henry you don’t have any clean stockings?

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others

yesterday drunken Alice gave me a jar of fig jam and today she whistles

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

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...

it is the man you’ve never seen wh… keeps you going, the one who might arrive someday. he isn’t out on the streets or

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...

One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...

she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,

I was sitting next to a young girl who didn’t know her scheme very well. “Where does 2900 Roteford go?" she asked me. "Try throwing it to 33," I told her. “You say you’re from Kansas Ci...

the soldiers march without guns the graves are empty peacocks glide in the rain down stairways march great men smi… there is food enough and rent enou…

It was another Sunday that we got into the Model-T in search of my Uncle John. “He has no ambition,” said my father. “I don’t see how he can hold his god-damned head up and look people ...