my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful

man, he said, sitting on the steps your car sure needs a wash and wax… I can do it for you for 5 bucks, I got the wax, I got the rags, I… I need.

Then the supervisor moved us to a new aisle. We had been there ten hours. “Before you begin,” the soup said, "I want to tell you some– thing. Each tray of this type of mail must be stuc...

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

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

the German hotel was very strange… double doors to the rooms, very th… looked the park and the vasser ter… it was usually too late for breakf… would be everywhere changing sheet…

a single dog walking alone on a hot sidewalk of summer appears to have the power of ten thousand gods.

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...

It was 3 or 4 days before I had to fly to Houston to give a reading. I went to the track, drank at the track, and afterwards I went to a bar on Hollywood Boulevard. I went home at 9 or ...

what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would

sun-stroked women without men on a Santa Monica Monday; the men are working or in jail or insane;