I took Tanya to the airport the next afternoon. We had a drink in the same bar. The high-yellow wasn’t around; all that leg was with somebody else. “No. You love sex and there’s nothing...

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...

I was standing in line at the bank… when the old fellow in front of me dropped his glasses (luckily, with… case) and as he bent over

he said, “I was working in Hollyw… working in Hollywood and he was the worst: he was too drunk to sta… end of the afternoon and so I had… into a taxi

a house with 7 or 8 people living in it getting up the rent. there’s a stereo never used and a set of bongos

My father had two brothers. The younger was named Ben and the older was named John. Both were alcoholics and ne’er-do-wells. My parents often spoke of them. “Neither of them amount to a...

they photograph you on your porch and on your couch and standing in the courtyard or leaning against your car these photographers

I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of

with old cars, especially when you… and drive them for many years a love affair is inevitable: you even learn to accept their little

The next day I sat in the hall in my green tin chair, waiting to be called. Across from me sat a man who had something wrong with his nose. It was very red and very raw and very fat and...

Of all the guys left in the neighborhood, Frank was the nicest. We got to be friends, we got to going around together, we didn’t need the other guys much. They had more or less kicked F...

sometimes after you get your ass kicked real good by the forces you often wish you were a crane standing on one leg in blue water