I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...

he was easy, fat as a hummingbird and I had him blowing, I jabbed and crossed and took my t… everybody was waiting for the main… drinking beer, and I was thinking

screen like a burglar to take your… the snake had crawled the hole, and she said, tell me about yourself.

I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...

another bed another woman more curtains another bathroom another kitchen

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

is an orange animal with hand grenades fire power

Mongolian coasts shining in light, listen to the pulse of the sun, the tiger is the same to all of us and high oh so high on the branch

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

I was in the 4th grade when I found out about it. I was probably one of the last to know, because I still didn’t talk to anybody. A boy walked up to “Your mother has a hole . . .”—he to...