“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

awaken at 11:30 a.m. get into my chinos and a clean gre… open a Miller’s, and nothing in the mailbox but the Berkeley Tribe

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

I’m not going to die easy; I’ve sat on your suicide beds in some of the worst holes in America,

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

Nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses d… and the landladies stare in the ha…

Four or five days passed. The phone rang. It was Tammie. “Listen, Hank. You know that little bridge you cross in your car when you drive to my mother’s place?” “Well, right by there the...

love, he said, gas kiss me off kiss my lips kiss my hair my fingers

the dead can sleep they don’t get up and rage they don’t have a wife. her white face like a flower in a closed

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…