the Mexican dancer shook her fans… me and her ass at me, I didn’t ask her to and my woman got mad and ran out of th… it began raining and you could hea…

I tried it standing up this time. it doesn’t usually work. this time it seemed

I had to fly to Illinois to give a reading at the University. I hated readings, but they helped with the rent and maybe they helped sell books. They got me out of east Hollywood, they g...

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the

at North Avenue 21 drunk tank you… there was always some guy who woul… way to the crapper and then you would curse him good,… he would know enough to either be…

the legs are gone and the hopes—th… and I haven’t shaved in sixteen da… but the mailman still makes his ro… water still comes out of the fauce… myself with glazed and milky eyes…

One day, just like in grammar school, like with David, a boy attached himself to me. He was small and thin and had almost no hair on top of his head. The guys called him Baldy. His real...

old Butch, they fixed him the girls don’t look like much anymore. when Big Sam moved out of the back

oh, how worried they are about my soul! I get letters the phone rings... “are you going to be all right?”

Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...

the rooms at the hospital went for 550 a day. that was for the room alone. the amazing thing, though, was tha… in some of the rooms

my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him