turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

“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...

and so we suck on a cigar and a beer attempting to mend the love

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair

I awaken about noon and go out to… in my old torn bathrobe. I’m hung over hair down in my eyes barefoot

A couple of nights later Becker walked in. I guess my parents gave him my address or he located me through the college. I had my name and address listed with the employment division at ...

red face Texas and age he’s at an L.A. racetrack

The bandages were helpful. L.A. County Hospital had finally come up with something. The boils drained. They didn’t vanish but they flattened a bit. Yet some new ones would appear and ri...

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

sometimes I forget about him and h… innocence, almost idiotic, awkward… he liked walking over bridges and… to night I think about him, the wa… one felt space between his lines,…

had her for 3 units and at mid-term she’d read off how many assignment… stories had been turned in:

Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...

he met her at the racetrack, a str… blonde with round hips, well-bosom… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions abo…

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...