I went with two ladies down to Venice to look for antique furniture. I parked in back of the store and went in with them.

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

I looked for a job all summer and couldn’t find one. Jimmy Hatcher caught on at an aircraft plant. Hitler was acting up in Europe and creating jobs for the unemployed. I had been with J...

he’s 17 . mother, he said, how do I crack an egg? all right, she said to me, you don… sit there looking like that.

Phillipe ’s is an old time cafe off Alameda street just a little north and east of the main post office. Phillipe’s opens at 5 a.m.

the branches break, the birds fall… the whores stand straight, the bombs stack, evening, morning, night, peanutbutter,

I met an old drunk on the street one afternoon. I used to know him from the days with Betty when we made the rounds of the bars. He told me that he was now a postal clerk and that there...

nobody goes downtown anymore the plants and trees have been cut… Pershing Square the grass is brown and the street preachers are not a…

During the second and third grades I still didn’t get a chance to play baseball but I knew that somehow I was developing into a player. If I ever got a bat in my hands again I knew I wo...

shot off his left ear then his right, and then tore off his belt buckle with hot lead, and then

we tried to hide it in the house s… neighbors wouldn’t see. was difficult, sometimes we both h… be gone at once and when we return… there would be excreta and urine a…

out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on th… by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories,