A day or so later I got a poem in the mail from Lydia. It was a long poem and it began: Come out, old troll, Come out of your dark hole, old troll, Come out into the sunlight with us an...

we were in bed and she started to fight: “you son of a bitch! you just wait… I’ll get you!” I began laughing:

I didn’t know exactly why but Chuck, Eddie, Gene and Frank let me join them in some of their games. I think it started when another guy showed up and they needed three on a side. I stil...

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

But then it began raining again. The Stone had me out on a thing called Sunday Collection, and if you’re thinking of church, forget it. You picked up a truck at West Garage and a clipbo...

Mindy stayed about a week. I introduced her to my friends. We went places. But nothing was resolved. I couldn’t climax. She didn’t seem to mind. It was strange. Around 10:45 PM one even...

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

my doctor has just come into his o… from surgery. he meets me in the men’s john. “God damn,” he says to me, “where did you find her? oh, I jus…

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

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

I blacked out after that. I guess I had consumed more whiskey than I thought. I don’t remember arriving at Nicole’s. I awakened in the morning with my back to somebody in a strange bed....

this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,