I keep thinking it will be outside now waiting for me blue front bumper twisted

as the spirit wanes the form

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

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

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...

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

all I’ve ever known are whores, ex… madwomen. I see men with quiet, gentle women—I see them in the sup… I see them walking down the street… I see them in their apartments: pe…

there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.

One morning a few days later I entered Lydia’s courtyard as she was walking in from the alley. She had been over to see her friend Tina who lived in an apartment house on the corner. Sh...

The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...

I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...

the canaries were there, and the l… and the old woman with warts; and I was there, a child and I touched the piano keys as they talked—

I mean, I just slept I awoke with a fly on my elbow and I named the fly Benny then I killed him and then I got up and looked in th…

you just don’t know how to do it, you know that, and you can’t do a lot of other useful things either. it’s the fault of the