a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats u… and run inside to the pavilion

half drunk I left her place her warm blankets and I was hungover didn’t even know what town

he was a good one say 18, 19, marine and every time woman came down the train aisle

On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...

The phone rang the next morning. Lydia had gone back to her place. It was Bobby, the kid who lived in the next block and worked in the porno bookstore. “Mindy’s down here. She wants you...

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

vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose

and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to hi… and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps

watch them push the crippled and t… in their wheelchairs on to the electric lift which carries them up into the lon… where each chair is locked down

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

sleep at Lila’s and in the morning we get the breakfast special at th… then it’s up to her friend Buffy’s… Buffy has boy twins, father in dou… in a $150-a-month apt.

her shoes themselves would light my room like many candles. she walks like all things shining on glass,

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