feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

The next day Katherine phoned me. She said she had the tickets and would be landing at L.A. International Friday at 2:30 pm. “Katherine,” I said, “there’s something I’ve got to tell you...

she sits up there drinking wine while her husband is at work. she puts quite

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

sitting on a 2nd-floor porch at 1:… while looking out over the city. could be worse. we needn’t accomplish great things…

Vallejo writing about loneliness while starving to death; Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a whore;

we take what we can see— the engines driving us mad, lovers finally hating; this fish in the market staring upward into our minds;

Back at Chelsey High it was the same. One group of seniors had graduated but they were replaced by another group of seniors with sports cars and expensive clothes. I was never confronte...

he’s a runt he snarls and scratches chases cars groans in his sleep and has a perfect star above each…

he used to sell papers in front: Get your winners! Get rich on a d… and about the 3rd or 4th race you’d see him rolling in on his ro… with roller skates underneath.

I kept the date in mind. It was never any problem creating a split with Lydia. I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the st...

this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where