it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way

I have a saying, “the tough ones a… back.” but Vera was kinder than most, and so I was surprised when she arrived that night

see this final storm as nothing ve… the world; there are so many more important t… consider. see this final storm as nothing ve…

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

I had begun to dislike my father. He was always angry about something. Wherever we went he got into arguments with people. But he didn’t appear to frighten most people; they often just ...

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

the strong men the muscle men there they sit down at the beach cocoa tans

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

there are many single women in the… with one or two or three children and one wonders where the husbands have gone or where the lovers have gone

I am in this low—slung sports car painted a deep, rich yellow driving under an Italian sun. I have a British accent. I’m wearing dark shades

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.

lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex—pug selling dailies on the corner.

Everybody had gym period at the same time. Baldy’s locker was about four or five down from mine in the same row. I went to my locker early. Baldy and I had a similar problem. We hated w...