“It’s the manager, Freddy. He has started whistling this song. He’s whistling it when I come in in the morning and he never stops, and he’s whistling it when I go home at night. It’s be...

what is it about lobsters and crab… those white-pink shells that always make me hungry just looking at them there in the butcher’s display case

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

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

think of de vils in hell and stare at a beautiful vase of flowers as the woman in my bedroom

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...

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

he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

it’s unfortunate, and simply not the style, but I don’t care: girls remind me of hair in the sink, girls remind me of intestines and bladders and excretory movements; it’s unfortunate a...