got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…

to be writing poetry at the age of… like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy; racetracks and booze and arguments with the landlord;

I have just spent one—hour—and—a—h… handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poem… well, they’ll just have to wait

An old man asked me for a cigarett… and I carefully dealt out two. Been lookin’ for job. Gonna stand in the sun and smoke.” He was close to rags and rage

I don’t beat the walls with my fis… I just sit but it rushes in a tide of it. the woman in the court behind me h…

drunk and writing poems at 3 a.m. what counts now is one more tight

Hugo Wolf went mad while eating a… and writing his 253rd song; it was… April and the worms came out of th… humming Tannhäuser, and he spilled… with his ink, and his blood fell o…

I came out of the bar and checked the message board. The plane was on time. Katherine was in the air and moving towards me. I sat down and waited. Across from me was a well-groomed woma...

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…

these boys have got class they ought to make kings out of old men rolling cigarettes in rooms small enough

I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

I’m soft. I dream too. I let myself dream. I dream of being famous. I dream of walking the streets of London and

My mother went to her low-paying job each morning and my father, who didn’t have a job, left each morning too. Although most of the neighbors were unemployed he didn’t want them to thin...