Bobby and Valerie came by and I introdu… “Valerie and I are going to take a vaca… “No, Bobby, I don’t think so.” “Oh, Hank, please!” said Cecelia. “I j… “Fine,” said Bobby. "We leave this even…

the elephants are caked with mud and tir… and the rhinos don’t move the zebras are stupid dead stems and the lions don’t roar the lions don’t care

Fay was pregnant. But it didn’t change her and it didn’t change the post office either. The same clerks did all the work while the miscellaneous crew stood around and argued about sport...

crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said. no, said a guy standing by us on the pie…

and the sun wields mercy but like a jet torch carried to high, and the jets whip across its sight and rockets leap like toads, and the boys get out the maps

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....

I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and used… along the way. I was reading a week or t… Kandel and I did not look quite as pretty but

I only met one student at City College that I liked, Robert Becker. He wanted to be a writer. “I’m going to learn everything there is to learn about writing. It will be like taking a ca...

the swans drown in bilge water, take down the signs, test the poisons, barricade the cow from the bull,

she’s from Texas and weighs 103 pounds and stands before the mirror combing oceans of reddish hair