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...

the vultures at the zoo (all three of them) sit very quietly in their caged tree and below

After dinner we came back and we talked. She was a health food addict and didn’t eat meat except for chicken and fish. It certainly worked for her. “Hank,” she said, “tomorrow I’m going...

swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current

Jack London drinking his life awa… writing of strange and heroic men. Eugene O’Neill drinking himself o… while writing his dark and poetic works.

maybe I’ll win the Irish Sweepsta… maybe I’ll go nuts maybe Harcourt Brace will call or maybe unemployment insurance or rich lesbian at the top of a hill.

he walks up to my Volks after I have parked and rocks it back and forth grinning around his

you gotta have wars suppose World War One was the bes… really, you know, both sides were… they really had something to fight… they really thought they had somet…

she writes: you’ll be moaning and groaning in your poems about how I fucked those 2 guys last week.

sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...

I took Tammie. We got there a little early and went to a bar across the street. We got a table. “Now don’t drink too much, Hank. You know how you slur your words and miss your lines whe...