if you can’t stand the heat, he sa… kitchen. you know who said that? Harry Truman. I’m not in the kitchen, I say, I’… oven.

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

I used to know a dutchman in a Ph… he’d take 3 raw eggs in his beer, 71, still working, strong,

my moustache is pasted-on and my wig and my eyebrows and even my eyes... then something stuns me... the lampshades swing, I hear

in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…

I had been sleeping on a terrible mattress with the springs sticking into me for several years. That afternoon when I awakened I pulled the mattress off the bed, dragged it outside, and...

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

at the hospital that I have been going to the nurses seem overweight. they are bulky in their

man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.

he buys 5 cars a month, details th… them out, then resells them at a profit of one or… he has a nice Jewish wife and he t… bangs her until the walls shake.

92 years old his tooth has been bothering him had to get it filled he lost his left eye 40 years ago

he got knifed in broad daylight, c… holding his hands over his gut, dr… on the pavement. nobody waiting in line left their… he made it to the Mission doorway,…