We ran up the long ramp. I was carrying… At the escalator Tammie saw the flight… “Please,” I said, “we only have five mi… “I want Dancy to have the money.” “All right.”

I saw a vacancy sign in the window in fr… cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up… had one black eye from the fight, anothe… lips were puffed. My left ear was bright… An old man came to the door. He was in…

unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, was never meant

he met her at the racetrack, a strawberr… blonde with round hips, well-bosomed, lo… turned-up nose, flower mouth, in a pink… wearing white high-heeled shoes. she began asking him questions about var…

once we were young at this machine. . . drinking

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.

near the corner table in the cafe middle-aged couple sit. they have finished their

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

They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to the sounds,

horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb

at the window I watch a man with a power mower the sounds of his doing race like flies and bees

the goldfish sing all night with guitars… and the whores go down with the stars, the whores go down with the stars I’m sorry, sir, we close at 4:30, besides yr mother’s neck is dirty,

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and