I took it home, opened the beer, got into bed and began. It started well. It was about how Janko had lived in small rooms and starved while trying to find a job. He had trouble with the...

between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old

she cut my toenails the night befo… and in the morning she said, “I th… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to wo… she was at my apartment—which mean…

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

Lydia met me at the airport. She was horny as usual. “Jesus Christ,” she said. “I’m hot! I play with myself but it doesn’t do any good.” “Lydia, my leg is still in terrible shape. I jus...

she’s young, she said, but look at me, I have pretty ankles, and look at my wrists, I have pret… wrists

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...

they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

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

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

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

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine