this poet he’d been drinking 2 or 3 days and he walked out on the stage and looked at that audience and he just knew he was going to do it. there was a grand piano on stage and he walke...

Dee Dee had to pick up her son at the airport. He was coming home from England for his vacation. He was 17, she told me, and his father was an ex-concert pianist. But he’d fallen for sp...

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

The next morning Tammie found a prescription in her purse. “I’ve got to get this filled,” she said. “Look at it.” It was wrinkled and the ink had run. “Well, he tried to get this prescr...

in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down

“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...

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

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

great writer remains in bed shades down doesn’t want to see anyone doesn’t want to write anymore doesn’t want to try anymore;

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

she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather

3 small boys run toward me blowing whistles and they scream you’re under arrest! you’re drunk!

Markov claims I am trying to stab his soul but I’d prefer his wife. put my feet on the coffee table and he says,

I suppose so. I was living in an attic in Phila… it became very hot in the summer a… bars. I didn’t have any money and… I put a small ad in the paper and…