listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch o… bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and then… will climb up on top of the others

I have just spent one—hour—and—a—half handicapping tomorrow’s card. when am I going to get at the poems? well, they’ll just have to wait

drinking German beer and trying to come up with the immortal poem at 5 p.m. in the afternoon. but, ah, I’ve told the

The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...

The rainy season began. Most of the money went for drink so my shoes had holes in the soles and my raincoat was torn and old. In any steady downpour I got quite wet, and I mean wet-down...

in the men’s room at the track this boy of about 7 or 8 years old came out of a stall

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

drinking 15 dollar champagne— Cordon Rouge—with the hookers. one is named Georgia and she doesn’t like pantyhose: I keep helping her pull up

he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fleck over one eye,

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