I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

you’re a beast, she said your big white belly and those hairy feet. you never cut your nails and you have fat hands

—he’s a dandy —small moustache —usually sucking on a cigar he tends to lean into cars as he transacts business

But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

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

Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...

and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps

this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,

of course, I may die in the next t… and I’m ready for that but what I’m really worried about… that my editor—publisher might ret… even though he is ten years younge…

dogs and angels are not very different. I often go to this place to eat about 2:30 in the afternoon

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...