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

This babe in the grandstand with dyed red hair kept leaning her breasts against me and talking about Gardena poker parlors

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

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

R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps) was for the misfits. Like I said, it was either that or gym. I would have taken gym but I didn’t want people to sec the boils on my back. There...

I feel gypped by dunces as if reality were the property of little men with luck and a headstart, and I sit in the cold

she was hot, she was so hot I didn’t want anybody else to have… and if I didn’t get home on time she’d be gone, and I couldn’t bear… I’d go mad. . .

these women are supposed to come and see me but they never do. there’s the one with the long scar…

Cleo’s going to make it now she’s got her shit together she split with Barney Barney wasn’t good for her she got a bigger apartment

On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...

red-eyed and dizzy as I the bird came flying all the way from Egypt at 5 o’clock in the morning, and Maria almost stumbled on her s…

saw him sitting in a lobby chair in the Patrick Hotel dreaming of flying fish and he said “hello friend you’re looking good.