you came out, she said, and then you kicked this guy’s car and then you threw yourself into a… you crushed the whole bush,

Sunday, I am eating a grapefruit, church is over at the… Orthadox to the west. she is dark

listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind bl… trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the… bed...

“Get a seat for her, put her on the tab,” I told Marty. “All right. We’ll set her up. We’re S.R.O. We’ve had to turn away 150 and it’s 30 minutes before you go on.” “I want to introduce...

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won’t go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36. She had long blonde hair and was go...

was on the train to Del Mar and I… to go to the bar car. I had a beer… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to… sitting in my husband’s seat.”

Times were still hard. Nobody was any more surprised than I when Mears– Starbuck phoned and asked me to report to work the next Monday. I had gone all around town putting in dozens of a...

A month went by. R.A. Dwight, the editor of Dogbite Press wrote and asked me to do a foreword to Keesing’s Selected Poems. Keesing, with the help of his death, was at last going to get ...

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

the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like the eyes in the look of a dog… like a square of wax,

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat

the old fart, he used his literary… to reel them in one at a time, each younger than the last. he liked to meet them for luncheon… wine