they’d come around and they’d ask “you finished your 2nd novel yet?” “no.”

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...

outside my window Sunday. I am eating a grapefruit. church is over at the… Orthodox to the west.

once starving in Philadelphia I had a small room it was evening going into night and I stood at my window on the 3r…

she lived in Galveston and was int… T.M. and I went down to visit her and w… continually even though it was ver… weather

the problem, of course, isn’t the… it’s the living parts which make up the Dem… the next person you pass on the st… multiply

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

I used to take the back off the telephone and stuff it with ra… and when somebody knocked I wouldn’t answer and if they pers… I’d tell them in terms vulgar

got out, fellow said, “hey!” walke… me, we shook hands, he slipped me… tickets for free car washes, “find… told him, walked on through to wai… area with wife, we sat on outside…

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.

There was death in that place on the hill. I knew it the first day I walked out the screen door and into the backyard. A zing– ing binging buzzing whining sound came right at me: 10,000...