you haven’t lived until you’ve been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb

she was a short one getting fat and she had once been beautiful and she drank the wine she drank the wine in bed and

One night I was assigned to the stool next to Butchner. He didn’t stick any mail. He just sat there. And talked. A young girl came in and sat down at the end of the aisle. I heard Butch...

she bent over the side of the bed and opened the portfolio along the side of the wall. we were drinking. she said, “you promised me these

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...

he has on blue jeans and tennis sh… and walks with two young girls about his age. every now and then he leaps into the air and

at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of sweat on the table

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

I’m in bed. it’s morning and I hear: where are your socks? please get dressed!

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

there waas a rock-and-mud slide on the Pacific Coast Highway and… detour and they directed us up int… and traffic was slow and it was ho… we were lost.

at the track today, Father’s Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a

in San Francisco the landlady, 80… Victrola up the stairway and I pl… until they beat on the walls. there was a large bucket in the ce… filled with beer and winebottles;