if you’re a man, Los Angeles is w… battle; or if you’re a woman, and… the rest, you sail it against a mo… when you grow grey you can hide in… in a mansion so nobody can see how…

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

very tall girl lifts her nose at m… outside a supermarket as if I were a walking garbage can; and I had no desire for her, no more desire

my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of

he packaged it up neatly in differ… sending the legs to an aunt in St.… the head to a scoutmaster in Brook… the belly to a cross-eyed butcher… the female organs were sent to a y…

is the slim tall ear-ringed bedroom damsel dressed in a long gown

he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi

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

here things are tough but they’re mostly always tough. basically I’m just trying to get a… with the female. when you first meet them their eyes

then there was the time in New Orleans I was living with a fat woman, Marie, in the French Quarter and I got very sick.

I had worked my charms on her for a couple of nights in a bar— not that we were new lovers, I had loved her for 16 months but she didn’t want to come to my…

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...