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. . .

she writes continually like a long nozzle spraying the air,

let me speak as a friend although the centuries hang between us and neither you nor I can see the moon. be careful less the onion blind th…

I began at 6:18 p.m. and Dave Janko did not begin until 10:36 p.m., so it could have been worse. Having a 10:06 thirty minute lunch, I was usually back by the time he got in. In he’d co...

sick with the flu drinking beer my radio on loud enough to overcome the sounds of the

I used to hold my social security… up in the air, he told me, but I was so small they couldn’t see it,

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

Frank liked airplanes. He lent me all his pulp magazines about World War 1. The best was Flying Aces. The dog-fights were great, the Spads and the Fokkers mixing it. I read all the stor...

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

they’re not going to let you sit at a front table at some cafe in Europe in the mid-afternoon sun. you do, somebody’s going to

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...