16 years old during the depression I’d come home drunk and all my clothing— shorts, shirts, stockings—

well, first Mae West died and then George Raft, and Eddie G. Robinson’s been gone long time,

I kept getting letters from a lady who lived only a mile or so away. She signed them Nicole. She said she had read some of my books and liked them. I answered one of her letters and she...

she had huge thighs and a very good laugh she laughed at everything and the curtains were yellow and I finished

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!

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,…

the telephone has not been kind of… of late there have been more and m… from people who want to come over… from people who are depressed from people who are lonely

first of all, I had a hard time, a… locating the parking lot for the b… wasn’t off the main boulevard wher… the cars all driven by merciless k… were doing 55 mph in a 25 mph zone…

Shirley came to town with a broken… and met the Chicano who smoked long slim cigars and they got a place together on Beacon street

Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...

I heard it first while screwing a… who had the biggest box in Scranton. I listened to it again as I wrote… to my mother

call it th e green house effect or… but it just doesn’t rain like it used to. particularly remember the rains of… depression era.