Three or four days later I found her note and phoned Debra. She said, “Come on over.” She gave me the directions to Playa del Rey and I drove over. She had a small rented house with a f...

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...

I was surprised the next morning when April knocked on the door. April was the one on ATD who had been at Harry Ascot’s party and who had left with the speed freak. It was 11 am. April ...

she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .

used to drive those trucks so hard and for so long that my right foot would go dead from pushing down on the accelerator.

I don’t know how it happens to people. I had child support, need for something to drink, rent, shoes, shirts, socks, all that stuff. Like everyone else I needed an old car, something to...

Then I was called down to personnel at the old Federal Build– ing. They let me sit the usual 45 minutes or hour and one half. The man walked me back to a desk. There sat this woman. She...

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

the other day I’m out at the track betting Early Bird that’s when you bet at the track before it opens)

we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;

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