twitching in the sheets— to face the sunlight again, that’s clearly trouble. I like the city better when the

don’t worry about rejections, pard… I’ve been rejected before. sometimes you make a mistake, taki… the wrong poem

I went to this place to see a movi… on tv Alexander the Great, and here come the armies ta ta ta

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

if I suffer at this typewriter think how I’d feel among the lettuce— pickers of Salinas?

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

A sound awakened me. It was not quite daylight. Cecelia was moving around getting dressed. I looked at my watch. “I want to watch the sun come up. I love sunrises!” “I haven’t been able...

I remember the Model-T. Sitting high, the running boards seemed friendly, and on cold days, in the mornings, and often at other times, my father had to fit the hand-crank into the front...

she’s not for you, man, she’s not your type, she’s erased she’s been used she’s got all the wrong

my father was a practical man. he had an idea. you see, my son, he said, I can pay for this house in my lif… then it’s mine.

Fay was all right with the pregnancy. For an old gal, she was all right. We waited around at our place. Finally the time came. “It won’t be long,” she said. “I don’t want to get there t...

One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...

the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my