once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him

The next day we picked up some of her st… “You going with him?” he asked Mary Lou… “Yes.” “All right. Luck.” He lit a cigarette. “Thanks, Hector.”

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

Every route had its traps and only the regular carriers knew of them. Each day it was another god damned thing, and you were always ready for a rape, murder, dogs, or insanity of some s...

got out, fellow said, “hey!” walked towa… me, we shook hands, he slipped me 2 red tickets for free car washes, “find you l… told him, walked on through to waiting area with wife, we sat on outside bench.

he got knifed in broad daylight, came up… holding his hands over his gut, dripping… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their place… he made it to the Mission doorway, colla…

One morning about 10 a.m. the phone rang… I recognized the voice and began to fond… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on. It’… “So therefore we have notified the schem… “And you are scheduled to throw your CP…

I laugh sometimes when I think about say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...

it’s the same as before or the other time or the time before that. here’s a cock and here’s a cunt

Then Joyce wanted to go back to the city. For all the draw– backs, that little town, haircuts or not, beat city life. It was quiet. We had our own house. Joyce fed me well.) Plenty of m...

I went over the other day to pick up my daughter. her mother came out with workman’s overalls on. I gave her the child support money

Bruckner wasn’t bad even though he got down on his knees and proclaimed Wagner the master.

the waste of words continues with a stunning persistence as the waiter runs by carrying the loade… tray