listen, he said, you ever seen a b… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and… will climb up on top of the others

red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…

Then I developed a new system at the racetrack. I pulled in $3,000 in a month and a half while only going to the track two or three times a week. I began to dream. I saw a little house ...

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

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...

once we were young at this machine. . . drinking

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs