But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...

The funeral was to be at 10:30 a.m. but it was already hot. I had on a cheap black suit, bought and fitted in a rush. It was my first new suit in years. I had located the son. We drove ...

women don’t know how to love, she told me. you know how to love but women just want to leech.

had it for a year, really put in lot of bedroom time, slept upright on two pillows to keep from coughing, all the blood drained from my head

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat

Our 30 minutes was now devoted to scheme training. They gave us each a deck of cards to learn and stick into pur cases. To pass the scheme you had to throw 100 cards in 8 minutes or les...

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

This will refer to the letter addressed to you dated August 17, 1969, proposing your suspension without pay for three days or other disciplinary action, based on Charge No. 1 specified ...

The next day in bed I got tired of waiting for the airplanes and I found a large yellow notebook that had been meant for high school work. It was empty. I found a pen. I went to bed wit...

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting…

dying for a beer dying for and of life on a windy afternoon in Hollywood listening to symphony music from m… on the floor.

you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them… anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—