then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.

look there. the one you considered killing you… for. you saw her the other day getting out of her car

is a highrise apt. next door and he beats her at night and she… and I see her the next day standing in the driveway with curl… and she has her huge buttocks jamm…

That night I gave another bad reading. I didn’t care. They didn’t care. If John Cage could get one thousand dollars for eating an apple, I’d accept $500 plus air fare for being a lemon....

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

they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

Then I started attending Mt. Justin Jr. High. About half the guys from Delsey Grammar School went there, the biggest and toughest half. Another gang of giants came from other schools. O...

one of the terrible things is really being in bed night after night with a woman you no longer

But there were some good moments. My sometime friend from the neighborhood, Gene, who was a year older than I, had a buddy, Harry Gibson, who had had one professional fight (he’d lost)....

I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...

Jimmy Hatcher worked part time in a grocery store. While none of us could get jobs he could always get one. He had his little movie star face and his mother had a great body. With his f...