my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear

the rag. she sat there, glooming. I couldn’t do anything with her. it was raining. she got up and left.

this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man

she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen

That evening I started drinking. It wasn’t going to be easy without Katherine. I found some things she had left behind—earrings, a bracelet. I’ve got to get back to the typewriter, I th...

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

neither does this mean the dead are at the door begging bread before

drive to the beach at night in the winter and sit and look at the burned-dow… wonder why they just let it sit th… in the water.

in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;

the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…

We came in low over Kansas City, the pilot said the temperature was 20 degrees, and there I was in my thin California sports coat and shirt, lightweight pants, summer stockings, and hol...

Lydia had two children; Tonto, a boy of 8, and Lisa, the little girl of 5 who had interrupted our first fuck. We were together at the table one night eating dinner. Things were going we...

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

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