in the earliest possible day in the blue-headed noon I will telegraph you a boney hand decorated with

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

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

in junior high school Big Max was a problem. we’d be sitting during lunch hour eating our peanut butter sandwiche… and potato chips.

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

Somehow the money slipped away after that and soon I left the track and sat around in my apartment waiting for the 90 days’ leave to run out. My nerves were raw from the drinking and th...

I saw Sara every three or four days, at her place or at mine. We slept together but there was no sex. We came close but we never quite got to it. Drayer Baba’s precepts held strong. We ...

I got his ashes, she said, and I… out to sea and I scattered his ash… they didn’t even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with

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

you know what Li Po said when ask… Artist or Rich? I’d rather be Rich,” he replied,… sitting on the doorsteps of the Rich.”

big sloppy wounded dog hit by a car and walking toward the curbing making enormous sounds

Meanwhile, there was still Joyce, and her geraniums, and a couple of million if I could hang on. Joyce and the flies and the geraniums. I worked the night shift, 12 hours, and she pawed...

horses running with her miles away laughing with a fool Bach and the hydrogen bomb