Luckily I had auto insurance that paid for a rental car. I drove Katherine to the racetrack in it. We sat in the sundeck at Hollywood Park near the stretch turn. Katherine said she didn...

she cut my toenails the night before, and in the morning she said, “I think I… just lay here all day.” which meant she wasn’t going to work. she was at my apartment—which meant anot…

the wind blows hard to night and it’s a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. hope some of them have a bottle

was on the train to Del Mar and I left… to go to the bar car. I had a beer and c… back and sat down. pardon me,” said the lady next to me, “b… sitting in my husband’s seat.”

On Christmas I had Betty over. She baked a turkey and we drank. Betty always liked huge Christmas trees. It must have been 7 feet tall, and 1/2 as wide, covered with lights, bulbs, tins...

Fay was all right with the pregnancy. F… I went out and checked the car. Came ba… “Oooh, oh,” she said. “No, wait.” Maybe she could save the world. I was p… “We better go now,” I said.

I was asked to give a reading at a famous nightclub, The Lancer, on Hollywood Boulevard. I agreed to read two nights. I was to follow a rock group, The Big Rape, each night. I was getti...

But, there were still bits of action. One guy was caught on the same stairway that I had been trapped on. He was caught there with his head under some girl’s skirt. Then one of the girl...

the centerfielder turns rushes back reaches up his glove and

the guy in the front court can’t speak English, he’s Greek, a rather stupid-looking and fairly ugly man. now my landlord does some painting,

once bought a toy rabbit at a department store and now he sits and ponders me with pink sheer eyes: He wants golf balls and glass