turmoil is the god madness is the god permanent living peace is permanent living death. agony can kill

I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels

for five years I have been looking across the way at the side of a red apartment hou… there must be people in there even love in there

I went into the bends. I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory. I even had the butcher knife against my throat one night in the kitchen and then I thought, easy,...

eating cold plums in bed she told me about the German who owned everything on the block except the custom drapery shop and he tried to buy

I found that the only way I could keep from dizzy-spelling into my case was to get up and take a walk now and then. Fazzio, a supervisor who had the station at the time, saw me walking ...

this woman keeps phoning me even though I tell her I am livin… I love. I keep hearing noises in the envir… she phones,

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn’t particularly want money. I didn’t know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out,...

beheaded in the middle of the night scratching my sides I am covered with bites kick my white legs out of the shee…

Well, I took the scheme sheet and I related everything to sex and age. This guy lived in this house with 3 women. He belt-whipped one (her name was the name of the street and her age th...

One morning about 10 a.m. the phon… I recognized the voice and began t… “Yes, yes, Miss Graves, but go on… “So therefore we have notified the… “And you are scheduled to throw yo…

Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...

now the territory is taken, the sacrificial lambs have been sl… as history is scratched again on t… as the bankers scurry to survive, as the young girls paint their hun…

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

ah, Merryman, fighter on the docks, killed a man while they were unloa… bananas. mean the man he killed