in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with

this is important enough: to get your feelings down, it is better than shaving or cooking beans with garlic. it is the little we can do

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 ...

We were in the air twenty minutes when she took a mirror out of her purse and began to make up her face, mostly the eyes. She worked at her eyes with a small brush, concentrating on the...

bluebird there’s a bluebird in my heart tha… wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, say, stay in there, I’m not going

luxury ocean liners crossing the water full of the indolent and rich passing from this place to that

which reminds me I shacked with Jane for 7 years she was a drunk I loved her my parents hated her

the lair of the hunted is hidden in the last place you’d ever look and even if you find it you won’t believe

the droll noon where squadrons of worms creep up like stripteasers to be raped by blackbirds. I go outside

she wrote me for years. “I’m drinking wine in the kitchen. it’s raining outside. the children are in school.” she was an average citizen

light brown stare that dumb blank marvelous light brown stare I’ll take care of it.

That evening after dinner Joanna produced some mescaline. “You ever tried this stuff?” Joanna had some paints and brushes and paper spread on the table. Then I remembered she was an art...

We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...